Talk:Yeti Airlines Flight 691

Flight number

Not sure why suddenly there's been 2 edits on the flight number, one to 671 and one to 677. Gonna cite the following from The Kathmandu Post article on the crash:

"An ATR 72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines with a call sign 9N-ANC that took off for Pokhara from Kathmandu at 10:30am crashed at Nayagaun."

Okay. I don't think there's anyone disagreeing that the plane involved was ANC. The problem is with the flight number.

Based on the source provided by the user who edited the flight number to 677, the flight, which was supposed to be flown by ANC, showed up as Unknown. Clicking on the flight history of ANC, on 15 Jan at 08:05am, ANC departed as flight 671. Not 10:30, so I think we can definitely rule out that. ANC next flew from PKR to KTM as 672 and it landed at 09:18. Direction doesn't match so definitely not 672. The next flight it would fly, according to the flight history page, was flight 691. It was scheduled to depart at 10:32 and arrive at 10:59, but right now it's showing up as cancelled. The next flight on the list, which is 677 (the one the user edited to), was scheduled to depart at 11:25 and arrive at 11:50. Yes, this is the flight that I mentioned earlier showed up as Unknown.

Given that we know the plane departed at around 10:30am, I'm pretty sure the closest flight we have here that matches the timing is the 10:32 Flight 691. SBS6577P (talk) 11:36, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

I have restored YT691 until the matter is resolved. WWGB (talk) 12:00, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Death toll

Can we please add a reference confirming the death toll as I have seen a couple times it has gone from 68 to 72 to 69 to 72 Dubstar44 (talk) 14:56, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

I cannot open the reference for number of deaths, but both The Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald both state that there are "at least 68 dead."

• Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (2023-01-15). "Nepal plane crash with 72 onboard leaves at least 68 dead". The Guardian. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
• Barrett, Chris (2023-01-15). "Nepal plane crash: Australian, foreign nationals, children among dozens killed in Yeti Airlines crash". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2023-01-16.

76.14.122.5 (talk) 00:21, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

The lat/long in the infobox are for the old airport. The reporting is the crash was near runway 12 of new airport. 159.196.168.202 (talk) 03:18, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Facebook livestream

I’m not sure I believe the facebook livestream linked under “external videos”. It seems fake. Is there any confirmation on its legitimacy? Tankpiggy18 (talk) 04:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

It looks real to me, at least the initial part prior to the crash. It is the correct aircraft, identifiable by the wings/flaps of the ATR 72-500 and it is the correct city as I can identify several landmarks of Pokhara, in particular the Bhadrakali Temple visible at 0:20. The specific flight path is consistent with the crash site coordinates too as they appear to have been on a left circuit for runway 30.

If this is the case I question whether this content is too graphic/distressing for Wikipedia, even as an external link. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the policy on this. Forenti^talk 08:02, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Right now I see [| The Daily Mail], [| Times of India], [| Business Today] and quite a number of other sources acknowledging the stream, so I suppose it is recognized as true for now. If it turns out to be fake we can remove it later. SBS6577P (talk) 05:44, 16 January 2023 (UTC)