Twenty-one bodies were found on the slopes of a mountain in the Himalayas in Nepal, where yesterday, Sunday, a plane carrying 22 people crashed, the army announced today.
“There is very little chance of survivors,” said Deo Chandra Lal Karna, a spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority.
“Twenty-one bodies have been found,” Narayan Silwol, a spokesman for the Nepalese army, told AFP the day after the Tara Air twin-engine twin crash.
“Ten bodies have been retrieved and we are trying to transport them to Kathmandu. Rescue crews are working to reach the rest,” he said.
The CAA announced earlier today that the plane “suffered an accident” at 4,420 meters, in the Sanosuar area of ​​the rural municipality of Tasang in the Mustang sector. He did not provide details about the causes of the accident.
“Analyzing the images we received, it appears that the flight did not catch fire. Everything was scattered on the spot. The plane appeared to have crashed into a large rock on the hill,” said Dev Raj Raj Subendi, a spokesman for Pahara Airport.
About 60 people are working at the site, including military, police, mountain guides and residents who have traveled most of the miles on foot to get there.
In addition to the three crew members, the plane carried 19 passengers: two were Germans, four were Indians and sixteen were Nepalese.
The four Indians were a couple, their daughter and son, aged 15 and 22, Indian police official Utam Sonawane told AFP.
According to Pradip Gausshan, a local civil servant, the wreckage is at an altitude of about 3,800-4,000 meters.
The Tara Air twin-engine Twin Otter took off from Pohara (northwestern Nepal) at 09:55 (07:10 Greek time), the country’s second largest city, 200 km west of the capital Kathmandu, before losing contact. via radio frequencies.
It was destined for Jomsom, an area popular with travelers in the Himalayas, on a 20 ‘flight from Pohara.
A photo posted by Narayan Silwal, a representative of the Nepalese army on Twitter, shows the wreckage of the plane scattered on the slope of a mountain.
The registration number 9N-AET is clearly visible on what appears to be a part of the wing.
According to the Aviation Safety Network website, the plane was built by the Canadian company De Havilland and made its first flight in 1979.
Rescue operations resumed this morning after they stopped when it fell overnight last Sunday.
Tara Air is a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines, a privately owned domestic airline serving many remote areas of Nepal.
Nepalese civil aviation has grown significantly in recent years, transporting tourists, hikers and climbers, as well as cargo to remote and hard-to-reach areas.
Nepal, a poor Himalayan country, has a poor track record in aviation security due to inadequate pilot training and maintenance.
The European Union has banned all Nepalese airlines from accessing its airspace for security reasons.
The country also has some of the most dangerous runways in the world, located in the middle of snow-capped peaks.
In March 2018, a Bangladeshi US-Bangla Airlines plane crashed near Kathmandu airport, killing 51 people.
The deadliest accident occurred in 1992: 167 people were killed on a Pakistan International Airlines flight near Kathmandu airport.
Two months earlier, a Thai Airways plane had crashed in the same area, killing 113 people.
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