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That certainly helps! Good luck and I hope you’re taking a fun trip!
Anyone know what they were flying? >

ATR-72 >

Part of that seems to be that it's a low cost regional plane operated by a lot of small regional airlines. Perfectly good planes can become death traps when poorly maintained, and small regional airlines in far flung parts of the world can have shocking maintenance standards.
It's hard to know without analysis done, but I suspect this is going to come down to maintenance. >

And may be flying into more difficult airstrips due to the airline size as well. Not sure how this exact one in Nepal is, but some of them are pretty extreme. >

Nepal has a few high altitude airports that can be considered dangerous because of hills surrounding. However, this flight was from Kathmandu to Pokhara, a relatively safer route. 
Considering that the captain(pilot) had 20+ years of experience, a recording shows what seem to be stalling and spiraling left side- this likely was equipment failure >

If a redditor spot bots, then why does reddit itself not spot and deal with them immediately? >

I'm from Nepal and let me tell you, All these domestic airlines buy planes on auctions that are literally on their way to boneyard. No amount of maintenance is keeping these trash cans from breaking down at some point. This is all down to the government for allowing these airlines to fly out of commissioned planes and the airlines for implementing shortcuts in maintenance and repairs. >

Yeah, Ive flown Yeti, Tarah, and Bhudda air, and there's no real difference despite the ads, all the planes are a few flights from the junkyards
Last spring I was visiting family in the Terai and when I flew back to KTM the plane had a partially busted door, and mosquitos got in and mobbed everyone for the entire flight, also because there's no jetbridge. >

Tara is the subsidiary of Yeti airlines which is infamous for their crash records thats why they split it for good image of their parent company. >

And tax purposes
But now Yeti can't escape that infamy either >

The video from the inside is the most horrifying thing i’ve seen online in a while >

I’ve had a pretty bad fear of flying for a very long time and I’ve found myself morbidly curious in the pst about reading pilot cockpit transcripts and such….I really really don’t want to watch the video but I’m worried what I’m imagining is worse than what it shows.
Can someone describe what happens in it for me so I don’t cave and watch it and regret it forever? >

I am terrified of flying and am leaving the country on a long flight next week for the first time since before Covid. I had to watch the video because my fear forces me to. 
I watched the video without sound on twitter and it was okay to watch for me. It was calm and okay and then chaos and the phone sort of falls down so you can’t see the window anymore and you see an explosion/smoke. The comments said the sounds were the worst part by far. So if you NEED to watch it I suggest making sure the sound is muted to avoid that. >

That’s helpful and thank you for the tip. Sometimes the fear outweighs the rational part in my brain telling me this isn’t something I want to have burned into my brain, so I get you. I hope you’re flight goes smoothly and you aren’t too anxious during! >

Oh I understand completely with your fear. I totally get the fear outweighing the rational part of your brain. 
Thanks for the thoughts - my doctor actually prescribed me something to take to help my anxiety during the flight. Hopefully that helps. >

That’s what I’ve resorted to after years and years of skipped flights and/or panic attacks. It’s helped me so much. I still get nervous but not in the debilitating way it would be without the medication! >

I think we’d get along in real life
But maybe shouldn’t sit together on flights >

Hahaha I’ve had a few people in my life say that they are also now more scared of flying after a flight with me so I could only imagine the levels we could hype each other up to 😬🤣 >

I can totally see that (from both our sides - I’d probably make you worse too). Thank god my SO is completely fine with flying and can help chill me out and I don’t make him worse.