The purpose of today’s operation, which was interrupted yesterday due to darkness, is to retrieve the bodies of five victims, as well as to ascertain the fate of the rest
A Kathmandu airport official said today that both black boxes – the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder – of the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft that crashed yesterday a short distance from Pokhara airport, the flight’s destination, have been recovered. of from the capital of Nepal.
The Asian country declared national mourning today, the day after its deadliest air disaster in three decades, with at least 68 of the 72 people on board officially confirmed dead and searches for the plane’s wreckage resuming in Pokhara (centre) .
The aircraft crashed at around 11:00 (local time; 07:15 Greek time) and caught fire.
It is the second deadliest crash in the country’s history, behind only September 1992, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 with 167 people on board was killed when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu airport.
The plane that crashed yesterday, despite the weather being fine, was carrying 57 Nepali nationals, 5 Indian nationals, 4 Russian nationals, 2 South Korean nationals and 1 each from Argentina, Ireland, Australia and France.
According to the police, the purpose of today’s operation, which was interrupted yesterday due to darkness, is to recover the bodies of five victims, as well as to ascertain the fate of the rest. 63 bodies were delivered to hospitals. They will be handed over to their families after identification and a post-mortem.
The authorities have created a commission that will investigate the plane crash and propose measures to avoid the repetition of similar tragedies.
Since 2000, almost 350 people have lost their lives in plane and helicopter crashes in Nepal. The Asian country is home to eight of the highest mountains on the planet, including Mount Everest, and sudden changes in weather often create dangerous conditions.
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