A two-seater Tara Air plane, more than two decades old, crashed Sunday morning into the hill of mustang district, killing the other 22 people on board, plus thirteen Nepalis, four Indians, two German nationals and three team members.
“We recovered all the bodies (Monday) and today (Tuesday). The 22 bodies were transported to Kathmandu in the Nepal Army’s MI-17 helicopter. Yesterday we brought 10 and today we transported 12 corpses to Kathmandu and sent all the bodies. to Kathmandu University Hospital for further autopsy and forensic testing,” Tek Nath Sitaula, a spokesman for Tribhuwan International Airport, told ANI.
The bodies will be handed over to the families after performing the autopsy and completing the procedures, the official said.
The two-otter plane, which took off from Pokhara for Jomsom in the Mustang at 9:55 a. m. Sunday’s M. (NST), he lost contact shortly after takeoff and was later discovered at Sansure Cliff in rural Thasang-2 Township in Mustang. monday morning.
In some other statement, “We are in the final procedure of the search and rescue project as all the bodies were recovered and the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have already been recovered from the crash site. It is being transported to Kathmandu through the relevant government and the government has already set up a fate turn research project,” the official said.
A five-member committee was formed on Monday to investigate the crash under the leadership of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Prem Bahadur Ale.
Led by Senior Aeronautical Engineer Ratischandra Lal Suman, other committee members come with Captain Dipu Jwarchan (Aeronautical Engineer), Senior Maintenance Engineer Upendra Lal Shrestha, Senior Meteorologist Mani Ratna Shakya and Co-Secretary of the Ministry Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane.
According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the other people on board were Captain Prabhakar Prasad Ghimire, co-pilot Utsav Pokhrel, flight attendant Kismi Thapa, passengers Indra Bahadur Gole, Purushottam Gole, Rajan Kumar Gole, Basant Lama, Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, Raveena Shrestha, Rashmi Shrestha, Rozina Shrestha, Prakash Sunuar, Makar Bahadur Tamang, Rammaya Tamang, Sukamaya Tamang, Tulasa Devi Tamang, Vaibhawi Bandekar (India), Ashok Kumar Tripathi (India), Dhanush Tripathi (India), Ritika Tripathi (India), Mick Grat, (Germany) and Yuvi Wilner (Germany).
Mustang is one of the mountainous districts and the fifth largest in the Himalayan country that hosts the Muktinath Temple pilgrimage. The district, also known as “Land Beyond the Himalayas”, is located in the Kali Gandaki Valley in the Himalayan region of western Nepal. ( AND ME)