Nepalese plane crash
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) —
Authorities in Nepal recovered more than a dozen bodies from the site of a plane crash in a mountainous region of the country on Monday.
The plane, which was carrying 22 people, went missing on Sunday.
Authorities have stated that they have little hope of finding any survivors.
Crash site: Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang pic.twitter.com/OcN93N1Qyb
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On Monday, an army spokesman shared a photo of the crash site on Twitter, showing the shattered plane on a mountainside strewn with debris, including what appeared to be a wing of the plane bearing the Tara Air flight number 9NAET in green lettering.
Brig. Gen. Narayan Silwal, the spokesman, said in a tweet that the plane crashed in the Mustang district, close to the mountain town of Jomsom, where the plane was headed before the crash.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, it collided with a mountainside at 14,500 feet.
According to Bishnu Bahadur K.C. of the Nepal police, there are no presumed survivors of the crash, but the rescue operation is still ongoing as of Monday morning.
Sudarshan Bartaula, a spokesman for Tara Air, said 14 bodies had been recovered so far.
A rescuer at the crash site, Naresh Shahi, said 15 bodies had been recovered — a difference that could be due to a delay in relaying information from the crash site, which is in difficult mountainous terrain.
"The plane and bodies — everything was found broken in parts," he said, adding that no burns were found on the bodies at the wreckage site.
According to the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, the aircraft, a DHC-6-300 Twin Otter operated by the private airline Tara Air, went missing shortly after taking off from Pokhara, in central Nepal, at 9:55 a.m. Sunday.
The plane's destination, Jomsom, is near Nepal's border with Tibet.
The flight was scheduled to last 20 minutes.
The mountain town is close to the Muktinath temple, a popular Buddhist and Hindu pilgrimage site.
According to a notice on Tara Air's website, the plane was carrying four Indian nationals, two Germans, and 13 Nepalis, as well as three crew members.
The plane made its last contact with Jomsom Airport at 10:07 a.m., according to the airline.
The Tara Air flight stopped transmitting a signal around Shikha, a mountainous area north of Pokhara, according to Flightradar24, a website that tracks flights in real time around the world.
Twenty-three people were killed in 2016 when a Tara Air Twin Otter aircraft flying the same Pokhara-to-Jomsom route crashed and was later discovered near a village about 30 miles south of Jomsom.
In 2017, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency, audited Nepal's civil aviation industry and discovered that the country scored lower than the global average when it came to investigating accidents.
Nepali airlines are barred from flying in European Union airspace due to "a lack of safety oversight by aviation authorities."
Pannett contributed reporting from Sydney, and Shih from New Delhi.
This report was contributed to by Annabelle Timsit in London and Miriam Berger in Washington.
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