Nepalese relief teams have recovered 21 bodies from the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed Sunday in the Himalayas with 22 people on board. Contact was lost with the Tara Air Twin Otter shortly after it took off from Pokhara (western Nepal) on Sunday morning for Jomsom, a popular destination for people heading to the Himalayas.
Monday After fruitless searches resumed Sunday, the military posted on social media a picture of the wreckage of the plane on a mountainside, with the registration number 9N-AET clearly visible on the wing.
“Twenty-one bodies have been recovered and teams are continuing to search for the remaining body,” Nepal army spokesman Narayan Silwal told AFP.
He continued, “It is very difficult to work in the region. The plane turned into several parts scattered all over the slope.”
About 60 people are participating in the search operations, including members of the army and police and guides working in the mountains along with the residents, knowing that many of them had to walk long distances to reach the place.
The Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that the plane “had an accident” at an altitude of 4,420 meters in the Sanossuer area of Thasang municipality in the Mustang region.
Pokhara airport spokesman Dev Raj Subedi said: “After analyzing the photos we have received, it appears that the plane did not burn. Everything is scattered on the site. It looks like the plane hit a big rock on the mountain.
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