All 22 victims of a plane disaster have been recovered in Nepal. Earth Situation News

 The plane was heading to Jomsom, a popular tourist and pilgrimage destination located 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Pokhara.

All 22 victims of a plane disaster have been recovered in Nepal. Earth Situation News
All 22 victims of a plane disaster have been recovered in Nepal. Earth Situation News

KATHMANDU – Nepali search and rescue personnel found the body of the last of 22 passengers aboard a small plane that crashed in the Himalayas two days ago, as well as the flight's voice recorder, on Tuesday.


The De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter plane crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara, 125 kilometres (80 miles) west of Kathmandu, on Sunday morning, killing two Germans, four Indians, and 16 Nepalis.

On what was supposed to be a 20-minute trip, the plane was headed to Jomsom, a major tourist and religious site 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Pokhara.


According to a representative for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority (CAAN), the plane only carried a voice recorder to record ground-to-air and air-to-air communications. A flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder are two types of "black boxes" used in modern planes.

"Nothing is left at the disaster site now but the wreckage," Deo Chandra Lal Karna, a Reuters reporter, said. "Everybody has been found, even the black box."


According to earth station flight-tracking service Flightradar24, the aircraft, operated by privately owned Tara Air, made its first flight in April 1979.


On Monday, soldiers and rescuers recovered 21 dead from the wreckage, which was strewn across a steep slope at an elevation of roughly 14,500 feet.

The bodies of ten fatalities were flown into Kathmandu on Monday, and the bodies of the remaining 12 victims would be flown in on Tuesday and released to their families after an autopsy and identification, according to Karna.

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The Nepali government has formed a five-member commission to investigate the cause of the incident and recommend aviation safety measures.


Nepal has a history of aviation mishaps, as it is home to eight of the world's fourteen highest mountains, including Mt. Everest.

A US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed and caught fire in early 2018, killing 51 of the 71 passengers on board.


When a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed into a hill while attempting to land in Kathmandu in 1992, all 167 people on board were murdered.


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