A video broadcast live by one of the passengers shows the last seconds on board the plane that crashed this Sunday with 72 people on board in Nepal.
Nepalese authorities resumed work today to recover the four remaining bodies after a plane crashed in one of the worst air crashes in the Himalayan country’s history. Rescue teams returned to the crash site this morning, where they try to get the four bodies out of a deep ravine from the vicinity. They have already found the black boxes and hope that they shed light on the causes of the accident.
So far, 68 lifeless bodies have been recovered after the accident of the ATR-72 aircraft, which crashed while covering the route between the cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara with 68 passengers and four crew members. According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the passengers included 53 Nepalis, five Indian citizens, four Russians, one Irishman, one Australian, one Argentine, two Koreans and one Frenchman.
The delivery of the already identified bodies to their families began on Monday once the autopsy was performed, Bahadur said, adding that the bodies of the foreigners “will be transported today by air to Kathmandu.”
On the occasion of the incident, the Nepalese government declared this Monday as a National day of mourning in memory of the victims. This is the second air accident in the country in less than a year, after a Tara Air company plane crashed in the town of Jomsom on May 29, killing all 22 passengers on board.
This number of accidents in Nepal has led the country to be subject to international sanctions for the lack of controls, and in 2013 the European Union prohibited the access of Nepali airlines to its territory. Since November 1960, when the country’s first plane crash occurred, more than 900 people have been killed in such accidents, according to statistics from Nepal’s civil aviation authority.
Source: Lasexta

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