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No survivors have been found at the accident site in Nepal, a day after a private plane – with 22 board, including 4 Indians – met with an accident in a mountainous region of the country in the midst of terrible climate. The search and rescue efforts had continued on Monday morning, hours after a halt because of difficulties faced by the teams. A team of 15 Nepali Army soldiers has been dropped close to the accident site to recover the bodies on Monday. The accident site lies an elevation of about 14,500 feet while the team has been dropped at 11,000 meters height, the army spokesperson said.
Prior the country’s home ministry had said that the government feared all passengers have died. “We suspect all the passengers on board the aircraft have lost their lives. Our preliminary assessment shows that no one could have survived the plane crash, but official statement is due,” Phadindra Mani Pokhrel, spokesperson, told news agency ANI. The crash site was identified as Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang.
“Fourteen bodies have been recovered so far, search continues for the remaining. The weather is very bad but we were able to take a team to the crash site. No other flight has been possible,” civil aviation authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told news agency AFP.
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“Some of the bodies of the passengers are beyond recognition. Police gathering the remains,” Tek Raj Sitaula, a spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, told reporters.
Pieces of the destruction of the plane that crashed on Sunday morning were discovered at 14,500ft in Sano Sware Bhir of Thasang in Mustang region in northwestern Nepal, after almost 20 hours since the plane disappeared, the Nepal Army said.
Sudarshan Bartaula, a spokesperson of Tara Air, said, “As the bodies have been scattered over a 100-metre radius from the main impact point, the search and rescue team is collecting them.”
