Kathmandu: All 22 people onboard the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday have died. Nepal Army on Tuesday recovered the last body from the crash site in the mountainous Mustang district. Those onboard included Ashok Kumar Tripathy (53), an HR consultant from Odisha, his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathy (51), their children Dhanush (24) and Ritika (15), two Germans, 13 Nepali nationals and three crew members.
The Canadian-built turboprop Twin Otter (9N-AET) went missing on Sunday morning soon after taking off from Pokhara on a short flight to Jomsom. It was later found to have crashed.
Nepal Army traced the crash site of Tara Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter,14 out of 22 dead bodies have been recovered so far at Sanosware, Thasang-2,Mustang.
This is the 3rd fatal accident and 4th aircraft loss for the carrier in it's 13 years history.
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— FL360aero (@fl360aero) May 30, 2022
At least 14 dead in Nepal plane crash, rescue operations continue https://t.co/6WKLkNjF97 pic.twitter.com/7QTghvPENe
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 30, 2022
Nepal recovers all bodies from site of plane crash https://t.co/zWCSeAwObY pic.twitter.com/6PDpUSIdIB
— ANADOLU AGENCY (@anadoluagency) May 31, 2022
All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash@CapitalFMKenyahttps://t.co/xrLJ78zWt5 pic.twitter.com/pzR7JPIdna
— KenyaMOJA.com (@KenMOJA) May 31, 2022
All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash https://t.co/P7mfU94lOr
— Malay Mail (@malaymail) May 31, 2022
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