MYAGDI: Ten more dead bodies of Tara Air plane crash victims have been brought to Kobang from Sanosare of Thasang Rural Municipality-2 of Mustang district this morning.
The dead bodies collected at the base of Manapathi peak were ferried by a helicopter belonging to Kailash Air. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in Mustang, Ram Kumar Dani, shared that efforts were on to retrieve a body hung in a cliff and search for another one gone missing.
“Ten bodies of the dead ones were taken to Kathmandu by Nepal Army helicopter on Monday. These collected ones would also be sent to Kathmandu today itself,” he informed.
The twin-otter aircraft of Tara Air was found crashed 19 hours after it went out of contact. The plane with 19 passengers and three crew members onboard had left Pokhara for Jomsom, Mustang at 9:55am Sunday.
The dead bodies of the passengers and their belongings were strewn on a cliff at the height of 4,200 meters. It was challenging for the rescuers to negotiate with the difficult geography which turned hostile further with fog, rain and snow on Sunday.
It takes four hours’ trek to reach the accident site from Kobang, the center of Thasang rural municipality.
Some 100 security personnel including Nepal Army, Armed Police Force, Nepal Police and locals had reached the accident site for the rescue. However, a group of 14 trained NA and Police personnel stayed at Sanosare in tent.
A local who visited the accident site, Indra Singh Serchan, said it seemed that plane hit the mountain and got asunder. The wreckage was found in the gorge and dead bodies scattered in the hills, he added.
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