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[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Were they really pilots or just people who happen to have bulshitted their way to get a pilot position, just like how corporate job applicants do.

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well, all airlines certified by Nepal (it's not the only country concerned by this, but it is concerned) are banned from flying in Europe for safety reasons.

It's not specified why, but reasons can be lack of oversight, lax regulations. All of that usually causes maintenance issues, lack of training, bad safety processes.

I also read the report, which states that the main factors for the crash are

  • lack of training (including crew resource management)
  • non compliance with standard operating procedure
  • challenging visual approach causing high workload

So basically the pilots were experimented (they were definitely not new pilots at all), but the approach was difficult, did not meet safety standards, documentation for it was not up to date, and pilots were not sufficiently trained, and did not respect standard procedure in the cockpit either.

That's a systemic error and it would have happened at one moment, regardless of the pilots.

(my source for the report https://www.tourism.gov.np/files/1/9N-ANC%20FINAL%20Report.pdf )

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Wow, Thank you for this very informative reply. I was not that aware of the status of Nepalese airlines.

as you say since this is a systemic problem with them. How very unfortunate for the passengers, a tragedy really, They are a victim of the failure of the Nepal government to fully supervise their airline industry; and also, assuming other industries, since the airline industry is one of the most sensitive industry and still they failed to put it up to standards.