The plane that crashed in the mountains of Nepal with 22 people on board on Sunday is not a survivor.
A tragic statement was issued this afternoon after all the bodies were found.
A sound recorder, known as a Black Box in the cabin, was also found in the wreckage of Sanosware in Mustang County.
This was followed by a 48-hour horror of a sad family waiting for news at the Kathmandu airport.
The rescue team confirmed that they had found all but one last night and warned them not to wait for them to be alive.
On Monday, Manira Pokhreli, the father of Utsokh Pokhreli, 25, the plane’s second pilot, said in a choked voice in Kathmandu: “I am waiting for the body of my son.”
There were four Indians, two Germans and 16 Nepalis on board.
According to local news, they were two Nepali families (one with four members and the other with seven members) and three crew members.
According to the German news agency dpa, the two Germans were men and women from the western state of Hesse.
A spokesman for the Hessian State Department said: “The relatives of the Hessian police have already been informed and care measures have been taken.”
The photo of the wreckage released yesterday showed some of the planes scattered on the rocks and moss on the side of the mountain valley.
The 43-year-old Tara Air Turboprop Twin Otter should have been in the air for just 20 minutes when flying from Pokhara to the mountainous city of Jomsom.
According to tracking data from flightradar24.com, it took off from Pokhara at 9:55 a.m. and sent the final signal at an altitude of 12,825 feet at 10:07 a.m.
According to the Setopati news website, local villagers began searching for him over the weekend, but after smelling the fuel, they were only able to reach the scene on Monday morning.
Production of the Twin Otter aircraft, originally made by Canadian aircraft manufacturer de Havilland, was first completed in the 1980s.
However, another Canadian company, Viking Air, put the model back into production in 2010.
It is prized for its durability and ability to take off and land on short runways.
With some of the highest mountains in the world, including the famous Everest, Nepal has a history of aviation accidents.
In 2016, the Tara Air Twin Otter, which was flying the same route, crashed after takeoff, killing all 23 people on board.
In 2012, an Agni Air plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom also crashed, killing 15 people. Six survived.
In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Kartik crashed, killing 18 people on board.
In 2018, a passenger plane in Bangla, USA, crashed while landing in Kathmandu, killing 49 of 71 people.
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