POKHARA: Nepali saviours have recaptured the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a aeroplane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said on Monday.
Air business control lost contact with the Twin Otter aeroplane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning and headed for Jomsom, a popular trekking destination.
Continuing a hunt on Monday after failing to find any trace a day before, the army participated on social media a print of aircraft corridor and other debris littering a sheer mountainside, including a sect with the enrollment number 9N- AET easily visible.
“Twenty-one body has been recovered and brigades are searching for the remaining one, ” Nepal Army spokesperson Narayan Silwal said.
“ It’s a veritably delicate area to work. The aircraft is several pieces scattered each over the pitch, ” a police functionary at the crash point said.
About 60 people were involved in the operation, including the army, police, mountain attendants and locals, utmost of whom tripped uphill for long hauls on the bottom to get there.
The civil aeronautics authority said the aeroplane“ met an accident ” at bases( metres) in the Sanosware area of Thasang megacity.
“ Analysing the filmland we entered, it seems that the flight didn’t catch fire. Everything is scattered at the point. The flight seems to have collided with a big gemstone on the hill, ” said Pokhara Airport spokesperson Dev Raj Subedi.
