Originally Posted by
martinebrangan
Nepalese pilots are well versed in density altitude, many airports have quite high altitudes, and would surely be particularly familiar with reference airspeeds. In one of the local papers it was emphasised that this accident is an outlier to most Nepal air accidents which involve CFIT, plus mishaps relating to extreme airports like Lukla. But one never knows, and something quite “different” happened here.
You are absolutely correct, hence i terminated with a simple "IMHO"...however since the very beginning when i started flying in 1994 i've always learned that in every single accident investigation we cannot exclude any single factor.