The aircraft, a Twin Otter model with 19 passengers and three crew members on board, flew from Pokhara – a popular tourist center – to Jomsom
Nepalese rescue teams recovered the bodies of 20 of the occupants of the Tara Air plane that crashed Sunday with 22 people on board on Monday after it disappeared from radar around 7:45 a.m. (local time), as confirmed by authorities.
It was confirmed early Monday that the remains of the damaged device had been found in Sanosware, after which Tara Air spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula confirmed in statements to The Kathmandu Post newspaper that 20 bodies had been recovered.
“Search and rescue teams are combing the area to try to locate the last two bodies,” he said, before adding that “about a hundred people are on the scene, including officers from the Nepalese army, the armed police, the Nepalese police, police, high altitude rescuers and local residents.”
“The bodies were scattered within a 100-meter radius of the main impact point. The search and rescue team is recovering them,” he said. Shortly before that, Nepalese army spokesman Narayan Silwal had published a photo of some of the remains of the plane’s fuselage.
On the other hand, the airline and the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal have released the names of those killed in the incident, including two German citizens and four Indians. The rest of the device’s occupants were Nepalese.
The aircraft, a Twin Otter model with 19 passengers and three crew members on board, was operating the flight from Pokhara – a popular tourist center about 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu – to Jomsom. reports, the authorities.
The Pokhara-Jomsom air route is considered one of the most accident-prone routes, even for Nepal’s dangerous record of air safety. At least 74 people have died in five plane crashes since 1997, according to the Nepali Times.
Source: La Verdad
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