Tara plane crash: No survivors found, collection of dead bodies begins, says Nepal media
India Today
Hours after a twin-engine aircraft operated by Nepal's Tara Air went missing on Sunday, the aircraft was found at Kowang in Mustang district.
No survivors have been found from the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, Nepalese media reported on Monday.
The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air went missing on Sunday morning in the mountainous region in Nepal. The Canadian-built plane, flying from the city of Pokhara to popular tourist town Jomsom in central Nepal, was carrying four Indian nationals, two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers, besides a three-member Nepali crew.
Inda Singh, who was on his way to clear a blocked road, found out that the plane had crashed. He said the plane was found in a completely damaged condition, MyRepublica newspaper reported.
"All the passengers on the aircraft are found dead,” he was quoted as saying by the paper. "The dead bodies are intact and the faces of all victims are recognizable."
Singh said that there is a problem in collecting the bodies as they are in a nearby ditch.
He said there was no fire on the aircraft. The aircraft could have met with an accident after hitting a cliff nearby.
In a statement, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said 14 bodies have been found from the wreckage of the ill-fated plane in the country's Mustang district on Monday. It said that the plane had crashed at Thasang-2 in Mustang district at the height of 14,500 feet.
