KATHMANDU, Nepal — There are “no survivors” from the Yeti Airways airplane crash close to Nepal’s new Pokhara Airport, authorities stated Monday.
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‘No survivors’ in Nepal plane crash, official says
The our bodies have been the final individuals who had been unaccounted for after officers stated Sunday that at the very least 68 of the 72 individuals on the airplane had died. The flight departed from the capital, Kathmandu, round 10:30 a.m. native time Sunday sure for Pokhara, a metropolis about 125 miles west of Kathmandu common with vacationers.
The flight was anticipated to be about 25 minutes, and authorities have been alerted of the crash about 11 a.m., Assistant Sub Inspector Rudra Thapa of the Pokhara police stated Sunday.
Rescuers reached the crash website on the gorge early Monday after halting the rescue mission that night when night time fell. They have been additionally making an attempt to retrieve the airplane’s black field, Ok.C. stated.
The reason for the crash was not clear Monday, which was declared a nationwide day of mourning.
Video footage confirmed the plane, an ATR 72-500 twin-engine turboprop propeller airplane, flying low and tilting to its aspect seconds earlier than it went down on Sunday. Different movies posted on-line confirmed the airplane on hearth, with massive plumes of smoke rising from the crash website as dozens of individuals crowded round it.
Our bodies of Nepali victims who’ve been recognized will probably be relinquished to households after postmortem examinations are accomplished, Ok.C. stated. Our bodies of foreigners which were recognized will probably be airlifted to Kathmandu on Monday, he added.
In accordance with an airline assertion, at the very least 53 Nepali nationals and 15 international nationals have been on the flight, together with 5 from India, 4 from Russia, two from South Korea, one from Argentina, one from Australia, one from France and one from Eire.
Almost 350 individuals have died in airplane or helicopter crashes in Nepal since 2000, Reuters reported, and the European Union has banned all Nepal-based airways from its airspace since 2013, citing security considerations.
In Could, 22 individuals have been killed in a crash on a flight involving one other twin-propeller airplane operated by Tara Air, a subsidiary of Yeti Airways. The airplane departed from Pokhara’s previous airport and was headed for Jomson, a vacationer city about 20 minutes away.
Pietsch and Kasulis Cho reported from Seoul. Leo Sands in London contributed to this report.