KATHMANDU, Nepal -
Rescuers have recovered all 22 our bodies from the location the place a aircraft crashed on a mountainside in Nepal, the airline mentioned Tuesday.
All of the our bodies had been flown to Kathmandu and brought to the Tribhuvan College Instructing Hospital the place docs are performing autopsies, Tara Air mentioned in an announcement.
The our bodies can be handed over to kin as soon as post-mortem is completed, it mentioned.
Whereas 10 our bodies had been flown to Kathmandu on Monday, the remaining had been introduced by military helicopter on Tuesday. Relations of the crash victims waited exterior the hospital constructing for authorities to launch the our bodies.
The Tara Air turboprop Twin Otter plane misplaced contact with the airport tower Sunday whereas flying on a scheduled 20-minute flight in an space of deep river gorges and mountaintops.
4 Indians and two Germans had been on the aircraft, Tara Air mentioned. The three crew members and different passengers had been Nepali nationals, it mentioned.
Native information stories mentioned the passengers included two Nepali households, one with 4 members and the opposite with seven.
The aircraft crashed Sunday in Sanosware in Mustang district near the mountain city of Jomsom, the place it was heading after taking off from the resort city of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu.
The aircraft's vacation spot is widespread with overseas hikers who trek on its mountain trails, and with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who go to the revered Muktinath temple.
The Twin Otter, a rugged aircraft initially constructed by Canadian plane producer De Havilland, has been in service in Nepal for about 50 years, throughout which it has been concerned in about 21 accidents, in response to aviationnepal.com.
The aircraft, with its top-mounted wing and glued touchdown gear, is prized for its sturdiness and its skill to take off and land on brief runways.
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