Nepali rescue workers scoured a debris-strewn ravine for three missing bodies from the mangled wreckage of a plane that crashed with 72 people on board, with hopes of any survivors now “nil,” according to authorities. | AFP
Soldiers used ropes and stretchers to retrieve bodies from the 300-meter deep ravine late into the night, with recovery efforts continuing throughout Monday.
Debris from the airliner was strewn across the crash site, including the mangled remains of passenger seats and the plane’s white-colored fuselage.Raj Dhungana, the uncle of one of the plane’s passengers, 23-year-old Sangita Shahi, told AFP outside a hospital in Pokhara that his whole family “is in pain.”
The ATR 72 was on a flight from the capital Kathmandu and hit the ground between Pokhara’s brand-new international airport and the old domestic one shortly before 11:00 am on Sunday. “When you’re at low altitude and you have an event like that… it’s major trouble,” Waldon, Asia managing editor at industry publication FlightGlobal, told AFP.
Yeti Airlines, Nepal’s second-biggest carrier, was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Ang Tshering Sherpa, who died in a helicopter crash in 2019.
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