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Rescuers Retrieve All 22 Bodies From Nepal Plane Crash

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  • The cause of the crash has yet to be confirmed, but Pokhara Airport spokesman Dev Raj Subedi said on Monday that the plane díd not catch fire mid-air

  • Four Indians and two Germans in their fifties were onboard the twin-prop aircraft, along with 16 Nepalis

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Nepali authorities, on Tuesday, announced that rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, as they began identifying the victims.

“All bodies have now been found,” Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told AFP.

Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane shortly after it took off from Pokhara in western Nepal on Sunday morning and headed for Jomsom, a popular trekking destination.

The plane wreckage was found a day later strewn across a mountainside at around 14,500 feet (4,420 metres).

Ten of the bodies were brought by helicopter to the capital Kathmandu on Monday with the remaining 12 still at the hard-to-reach crash site, with poor weather hampering the operation, officials said.

About 60 people were involved in the search mission, including the army, police, mountain guides and locals, most of whom trekked uphill for miles to get there. Many spent the night camped at the high-altitude site.

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The cause of the crash has yet to be confirmed, but Pokhara Airport spokesman Dev Raj Subedi said on Monday that the aircraft operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air did not catch fire in the air.

Four Indians and two Germans in their fifties were onboard the twin-prop aircraft, along with 16 Nepalis, including a computer engineer, his wife and their two daughters who had just returned from the United States.

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The four Indians were a divorced couple and their daughter and son, aged 15 and 22, on a family holiday.

“There was a court order for (the father) to spend time with the family for 10 days every year, so they were taking a trip,” Indian police official Uttam Sonawane told AFP.

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