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| Desh_Bhakta_Bhattarai |
Posted
on 30-Jun-02 11:03 AM
Just this morning, I read this news in KOL(Kantipuronline) :
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Rs. 23.4 m spent in search of missing chopper
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, June 29 – Already Rs. 23.4 million have been spent in search operations to locate the Asian Airlines MI-8 helicopter that is still missing with 10 people onboard including two Russians, Airline officials have said.
Tashi Sherpa, managing director at Asian Airlines, has been quoted as saying that the amount has been spent in search operations to locate the helicopter still suspected to be around Lukla area, where it went missing minutes before it was supposed to make a landing. The chopper had taken off from Makalu base camp.
Two of the Russians were both crew members, one a pilot and another an engineer, while the rest of the people onboard were all Nepalis.
The government had hiked the prize amount to Rs. 200,000 to anyone providing information about the missing helicopter. This is the first time that an aircraft has gone missing for this long time in the civil aviation history of the country. (sjs
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Well hey! Where is th chopper? Nepal isn't an extremely large country where you cannot even find a chopper. People have even found dead bodies in th Sahara desert which is very, and I mean VERY large. Even in this technological age, with so many instruments and GPS(Global Positioning Sustems), people cannot find a chopper.
Well, people might argue - "There are so many geographical obstacles, how could we find it?" Well, hey, guess what? Satellites and GPS's have so improved that you could even find an ant ( well, just an expression, but you could find many things! ) So why aren't they wsing all these technologies to find the chopper?
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| jhapali mitra |
Posted
on 30-Jun-02 01:21 PM
Dear Desh Bhakta Bhattaria jee,
Ur idea has drawn my interest,, and i too have been wondering why the chopper is still missing.
like ur opinion, I think if the current tech advancement be used, the chopper could be located within couple of days or so. Well, GPS could be a very handy and cheap tool to locate it,,, but m sure,, we don know the exact location (in terms of geographical co-ordinates) where the chopper is now. had we known it,, the chopper could be located simply by flying a helicopter over the area and just tracking, using GPS instrument, minimum 4 of the 24 satelliltes launched by the US military. M sure we have many GPS instruments in nepal,, its very cheap, easy to use and very accurate also (now a days,GPS instrument can be used to locate objects on earth to a precision of 1 m)
So, in my opinion, the problem we have is the geographical co-ordiate where the chopper has fallen. but this suld not be a difficult job.This location could be obtained with the images obtained via remote sensing. These remote sensors are so fine tuned that the satellites flying at height of around 800 kms in the space can distinguish objects on earth that are just 1 m apart.ANd now a days,, its possible to have remotely sensed data for free also.
So, my idea is that we r unable explore advances in RS technology,, therefore,,unable find the chopper. I have got an impression that we don have remote sensing experts in our country and in our military also ((in connection with this,, lets remember the attack our maobadi daju/bhai/didi/baini made on military camp few weeks ago,, and the military were unaware that they are being attacked)). Simply placing sensors in a periphery of 100 m or so arround the military camp could alert the military about the attack. But this is not happening.
Its pity --- the authorities seem pretty convinced that the chopper can now be located my mechanical searching only,,, has announced prize of NRs 200,000 hoping that villagers would move around in search of the chopper.
So, i don know how long will it be when the chopper is found. Still pray god that it be found soon
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| arnico |
Posted
on 05-Jul-02 11:00 AM
Just wondering: has anyone bothered looking north of the border? The Barun Valley (where Makalu Basecamp is located) opens into the Arun Valley very close to the Tibetan border. If the weather was bad it could have easily ended up in Tibet and crashed there. (Think of the comic book Tintin in Tibet)
Second possibility: has any one looked for tracks of recent avalanches on Makalu or on nearby peaks? If it slammed into a steep snow covered slope its pieces would not have stayed put... they would have started rolling down, engulfed by growing balls of snow, and possibly become covered by an avalanche triggered by the impact.
Third possibility: could it have been hijacked? If the Thai Airbus that went missing on July 31, 1992 could pass over the Kathmandu Valley undetected and crash into Gosainkunda ridge (only to be found 3 days later), then what prevents a hijacked helicopter from traveling down the Arun valley, and then west along the sparsely populated Siwalik to suddenly find itself providing services in the highlands of Rolpa or Jajarkot (or anywhere else for that matter).
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| corupted chopper |
Posted
on 05-Jul-02 11:11 AM
Searching cost of chopper has been already over more than cost $10 million Rupee. But real search task never attampted. Search budget or amount of money is desapear among search committes.
Nepal is very small country, you don't need high tech equipment to search. You can use your common sense where the chopper is? Missing chopper means Nepal national Money goes on corrupted politician's pockets.
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| Civil Engineer ITT |
Posted
on 05-Jul-02 11:28 AM
Nepal is a very very small plant on earth. It is good to have GPS (Global Positioning Sustems) but costwise is not worthy to use in country like Nepal.
First, things do you know how GPS works? You talk abouut communication, equipments, computer, teachician, experts, seatalite, graphic analysis and accuracy.
GPS(Global Positioning Sustems) is not buying a computer from store. If you buy and use GPS(Global Positioning Sustems) in country like Nepal for search chopper, and anotherside is so many Nepalese dying from hunger, jobless, diseases, other problem.
We have to think more and more and understand very well before we do anything stupid decision?
We think onethig that is 100% correct, but it might be 100% wronge. If it is right that's good, if it is wronge it takes you hell. It happens most of the time, if you have lack of knowledge and intelligency.
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