Nepal: Rescue teams find black boxes from plane crash that left 72 dead

The rescue teams today found the black boxes of the plane that crashed yesterday, Sunday, in Nepal with 72 people on board leaving no survivors, official sources informed EFE, which have so far recovered 69 bodies.

According to the spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Prem Nath Thakur, the operators recovered the black boxes from the aircraft this morning shortly after resuming the rescue work with which they try to find the bodies of the last missing passengers.

This finding will help to clarify the causes of the accident, since the boxes record technical information such as the plane’s route, speed, altitude and engine status before crashing, as well as voice recordings inside the pilots’ cabin. .

So far, rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 69 people who were on the plane at the time of the crash, which occurred while trying to land at Pokhara International Airport from Kathmandu.

Authorities will resume searches tomorrow, Tuesday, to try to recover the bodies of the three remaining people, local government official Tek Bahadur KC told EFE.

“However, there are no survivors. We are working hard to recover the three missing bodies found in the deep ravine”, he indicated.

It is probable that the bodies fell into a deep gorge located in the immediate vicinity of the accident site, but the cavity “it is 300 meters deep and has a narrow access. Requires supplemental oxygen to enter, we are using all the equipment to make the mission possible”, he detailed.

According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the travelers included 53 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, one Irishman, one Australian, one Argentine, two Koreans and one Frenchman.

The delivery of the already identified bodies to their families began today once the autopsy was carried out, while it is expected that the bodies of foreigners will also be transferred today to the capital.

The Nepalese government declared this Monday as a day of national mourning in memory of the victims.

This is the second plane crash in Nepal in less than a year, after a Tara Air company plane crashed in the town of Jomsom on May 29, killing all 22 people on board.

This number of accidents has led Nepal 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.

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