Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson Jagannath Nirula said the black box of the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday has been recovered today.
The spokesman said the flight recorder has been handed over to the Nepalese army and will be taken to Kathmandu to be handed over to the Air Crash Investigation Commission.
The rescue and search operation for Sunday’s plane crash that killed 68 people continued on Monday to find the four remaining bodies trapped in a ravine.
The twin-propeller Yeti ATR-72 jetliner with 72 people on board, including six children, 25 women and four crew members, crashed on the bank of the Seti river near the central resort of Pokhara in the Himalayan country. .
The plane crashed into a 300-meter-deep gorge flanked on both sides by steep cliffs as it was flying from Kathmandu to the new airport in Pokhara, Nepal’s third-largest city, 129 kilometers west of the capital.
It is said to be the worst air accident ever in the national aviation of Nepal and there were 53 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, an Irishman, an Australian, an Argentinean, a Frenchman and two Koreans on board.
Sunday’s incident is the deadliest in Nepali aviation since 1992, when 167 people were killed when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed into a hill while trying to land in Kathmandu.
(With info from PL and BBC)
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