Nepal Plane Crash: Black Box Of Aircraft Found, Confirms Kathmandu Airport Official

Nepal Plane Crash: A Kathmandu airport official has said that the search and rescue teams have found the black box of the crashed aircraft.

Official Sher Bath Thakur confirmed the update to the news agency ANI.

Nepal aircraft crash | The black box of the crashed plane found: Sher Bath Thakur, airport official Kathmandu to ANI

Visuals of the search and rescue operation at Pokhara. pic.twitter.com/Qqhz68Glym

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An official told the news agency AFP that there is no hope of finding survivors in the crash. “Hopes of finding survivors in Nepal plane crash ‘nil’,” he said.

The teams on the ground have also found another body of a passenger taking the death toll to 69. A search operation is underway to find the remaining three people who were onboard the plane when it crashed.

According to rescue teams, 36 of the total bodies found so far have been identified.

Earlier, a Nepal Army spokesperson said that no one has been rescued alive from the crash site. According to ANI, Nepal army spokesperson Krishna Prasad Bhandari said, “We haven’t rescued anyone alive from the crash site.”

The accident is being termed one of the worst aircraft crashes in history.

As for the latest, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers following Sunday’s aircraft crash in Pokhara.

Apart from the meeting, Dahal directed the country’s home ministry, security personnel and all the government agencies to carry out immediate rescue and relief operations, ANI reported citing The Kathmandu Post newspaper.

At least 69 people were killed when a Yeti Airlines passenger plane with 72 people on board crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly opened airport in the city of Pokhara.

The crash occurred after a twin-engine turboprop ATR 72 plane crashed en route from the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu to Pokhara. The Nepalese authorities have tasked a special commission with investigating the causes of the crash. A report is expected in 45 days, reported ANI.