21 bodies recovered from Tara Air plane crash site in Nepal

Rescuers on Monday recovered 21 bodies from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepals mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board including four Indians minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara officials saidThe turboprop Twin Otter 9NAET plane went missing on Sunday morning in the mountainous region of Nepal The Canadianbuilt plane flying from Pokhara to the popular tourist town Jomsom in central Nepal was carrying four Indians two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers besides a threemember Nepali crewRescuers have recovered 21 bodies from the crash site said a statement issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal CAANOne person was still missing the statement addedIt said that 10 bodies were brought to Kathmandu while 11 bodies were taken to the base camp from where the rescue operation is being coordinatedSudarshan Bartaula a spokesperson for Tara Air said that search and rescue teams are scouring the area for the remaining personPresident Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have condoled the death of crew members and passengers in the plane crashThe government has formed a fivemember commission of inquiry headed by senior aeronautical engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman to find out the cause of the Tara Air plane crashA preliminary investigation revealed that the aircraft had crashed into the mountains after it swerved to the right instead of turning to the left due to inclement weather CAAN DirectorGeneral Pradeep Adhikari said during a meeting of the International Committee of the Parliament on MondayEarlier in the afternoon the CAAN in a statement said that the plane had crashed at Thasang2 in Mustang district at the height of 14500 feetInda 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 reportedAll 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 recognisableHe said there was no fire on the aircraft The aircraft could have met with an accident after hitting a cliff nearbySearch and rescue teams from Nepal Army Air Dynasty Kailash Helicopter and Fishtail Air Helicopter and other rescue workers were deployed at the crash site The 9NAJR Helicopter of Fishtail Air was the first to land at the crash site and confirmed it at 810 am today according to the CAANThe airlines passengers list identified four Indians as Ashok Kumar Tripathy his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathy and their children Dhanush and Ritika The family was based in Thane city near MumbaiTheir relatives of the Indian victims were waiting in Kathmandu for identification of the bodiesPieces of the wreckage of the aircraft were found after nearly 20 hours since the plane went missing the Nepal Army saidNepal Army Spokesperson Brigadier General Narayan Silwal tweeted in the morning that search and rescue troops physically located the plane crash siteCrash site Sanosware Thasang2 Mustang he tweeted along with a picture of the wreckage of the aircraftThe plane took off at 955 am from Pokhara and lost contact with air control about 12 minutes later at 1007am according to the Civil Aviation AuthorityTara Air spokesperson Bartaula said the bodies were scattered over a 100metre radius from the main impact pointThe plane slammed into the mountain breaking into pieces said BartaulaThe impact has blown the bodies all over the hill he saidThe photo posted on the social media site shows the tail and one wing of the aircraft remain intactThe search was suspended on Sunday because of bad weather and failing lightNepal home to eight of the worlds 14 highest mountains including Everest has a record of air accidentsIn 2016 all 23 people aboard were killed when a plane of the same airline flying the same route crashed after takeoffIn March 2018 a USBangla Air crash occurred at the Tribhuvan International Airport killing 51 people on boardA Sita Air flight crashed in September 2012 while making an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport killing 19 peopleA plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed near Jomsom airport on May 14 2012 killing 15 peopleTara Air is the newest and biggest airline service provider in the Nepalese mountains according to the airline website It started its business in 2009 with the mission of helping develop rural NepalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever