Hello and welcome to episode 166 of Avdoc. I am Ian Patchnick here as always with...

Jastler.

Hello, Ian, how's it going?

Hello, Jason, it's going well. It's a good week. School is winding down, getting ready for

summer, getting ready to do some travel in the next couple of weeks, and so it's like that weird kind of pre-trip, getting everything done, accomplished accomplished ready to go type thing how are you sir I'm good if you're

getting ready to do some travel man we have a lot to talk about we sure do This episode is going to be a good one in just a little bit. We're going to welcome John Walton back to the show. We're going to talk about what is going wrong and why it might not be a great time to be traveling, but it's not boring.

I'll say that.

No, it might be easier to talk about what's going right rather than what's going wrong. Much shorter conversation. Yes, but we will have the long conversation with

John in just a little bit. But first we turn to an unfortunately all too common event in Nepalese aviation, another crash that has claimed the lives of 22 people this time, three crew members and 19 passengers were on a Terra Air

Twin Otter.

They were flying from Pocara to Jompson, and this happened on the 29th of May.

The aircraft flew into inclement weather according to reports from folks in the area

and it was found the next day it had impacted a mountain side at about

14,500 feet. So this is like I said I mean it's not a common experience. It doesn't happen every day, but

flying in Nepal is treacherous.

I was about to say inherently dangerous, but that's not the case. It's not inherently dangerous. It is treacherous. It requires a very specialized set of skills,

extreme, extreme situational awareness and the ability to say no we are not going to operate today because we just can't fly in these conditions.

This particular line has had a handful of incidents over the past few years. It has had non-fatal accidents in 2017 and 2018 and it had its previous fatal accident was in 2016.

It basically the same thing happened.

23 people on board the aircraft. It departed from Bocomp. happened. in the

2016 crash, the co-pilot was the pilot flying, the captain was the pilot monitoring,

the aircraft deviated to avoid clouds that had formed at about lower than 12,000 feet so they climbed up to 12,000.

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