Two days after a plane crashed in Nepal with 22 aboard, including four Indians, the black box was retrieved on Tuesday morning, Nepal Army was quoted as saying in reports, adding that the last body was recovered too. The Tara Air plane crashed on Sunday, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara for Jomsom.
“Ten bodies have already been brought to the base station in Khabang-Mustang. Two bodies are being brought down to the base station, the black box has also been recovered from the site,” the Nepal Army spokesperson told news agency ANI. With the recovery of black box, details may soon emerge on how the mishap unfolded.
“All bodies have now been found,” Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told news agency AFP. “Processes will take place to identify the bodies.”
The wreckage was found on Monday – strewn across a mountainside – at around 14,500 feet (4,420 metres). All but one of the bodies were later recovered.
An update from the country’s home ministry on Monday had dashed hopes of anybody surviving the mishap. “The last dead body has been recovered. Arranging to bring the remaining 12 dead bodies from the crash site to Kathmandu,” Nepal Army spokesperson Brigadier General Narayan Silwal said on Tuesday morning.