No survivors have been located in the Nepal plane disaster; four Indians were on board: Report
The bodies of some of the passengers are unrecognisable. The official was cited as stating, "Police are gathering the remains."
No survivors have been located at the crash site in Nepal, a day after a private plane carrying 22 people, including four Indians, crashed in terrible weather in the country's mountainous area. The search and rescue activities resumed on Monday morning, hours after they had been put on hold due to difficulties encountered by the personnel.
On Monday, a squad of 15 Nepali Army soldiers was deployed near the crash site to recover the dead. According to the army spokeswoman, the crash site is located at an elevation of 14,500 feet, whereas the crew was dropped at a height of 11,000 metres.
The country's home minister had previously stated that the authorities feared that all passengers had perished. "All of the passengers on board the plane are believed to have died. Although our preliminary findings indicate that no one may have survived the plane crash, an official statement is expected soon "ANI quoted spokeswoman Phadindra Mani Pokhrel as saying. Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang was the location of the crash
After search and rescue activities continued on Monday morning, fourteen remains were found from the wreckage of the Tara Air plane that crashed into a mountainside. "Fourteen dead have been recovered so far, with the hunt for the remaining bodies continuing. Despite the severe weather, we were able to send a team to the crash scene. "No other flight has been possible," Deo Chandra Lal Karn, a spokesman for the civil aviation authority, told news agency AFP.
"Some of the passengers' bodies are incomprehensible. "Police are gathering the corpses," Tek Raj Sitaula, a spokeswoman for Nepal's capital Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, told reporters.
After nearly 20 hours since the plane went missing, pieces of the wreckage of the passenger plane that crashed on Sunday morning were discovered at 14,500 feet in Sano Sware Bhir of Thasang in Mustang district in northwestern Nepal, according to the Nepal Army.
"As the bodies have been strewn over a 100-meter radius from the primary impact location, the search and rescue crew is collecting them," Sudarshan Bartaula, a Tara Air official, said. The airline released a passenger list that named Ashok Kumar Tripathy, his ex-wife Vaibhavi Bandekar (Tripathy), and their children Dhanush and Ritika as four Indians.
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