Nepal Plane Crash

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by Yo_You_Not_You_you

We have a FR24 for a flight on runway 12 on the new airport that goes over the old airport .

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...n-amz#2ed30fdb

The difference is that this is coming from the left while the crash flight is coming from the right . Both would mean getting over the old airport . https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?m...TE&usp=sharing
He is too much above the old airport and old runway is visible the whole time straight ahead and pilot have eyes on the new airport during the downwind , base phase.

Annoyingly, FR24 seem to be going out of their way to be unhelpful in establishing the definitive flightpath of the accident flight.

In their blog, they make reference to the aircraft having stopped sending ADS-B position squitters about 7 minutes prior to impact (obviously beyond FR24's control), but continuing to send Mode S EHS (which FR24 did capture) for the remainder of the flight down to 175' AAL(!).

So far, and despite requests to do so, they haven't shared anything except the truncated ADS-B and a not-very-illuminating altitude plot:


For those not familiar with EHS, it contains lots of interesting parameters including track, heading, TAS, IAS, groundspeed and even bank angle, from which it would be relatively easy to reverse-engineer the horizontal trajectory with a fair degree of accuracy - certainly enough to resolve the "heading-for-the-wrong-airport" scenario.

I really don't understand FR24's reluctance to post that data - unless they don't actually have it at all.