So far, at least 16 bodies have been recovered from the Mustang District incident site, where Nepal Army found the wreckage of the army twin-engine Tara Air passenger plane which crashed on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, and three crew members.
According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the recovered bodies are yet to be identified and will be flown to Kathmandu for postmortem examination.
As the Nepal Army continues to retrieve the bodies from the crash site, officials said that "Some of the bodies of the passengers are beyond recognition. Police gathering the remains."
- While the Army spokesperson confirmed that the crash site lies at an elevation of about 14,500 feet, the officials suspected that all the passengers on board must have died.
"We have suspected all the passengers on board the aircraft have lost their lives. Our preliminary assessment. has shown that no one could have survived the crash but the official statement is due," Phadindra Mani Pokhrel, Spokesperson at Home Ministry told ANI on Monday.
The search operation was resumed today morning by the Nepal Army after it was halted on Sunday due to the bad weather conditions..
All helicopters deployed for the search of the crashed aircraft were called back to their bases on Sunday after a snowfall in Mustang district, Premnath Thakur, General Manager of Tribhuvan International Airport said.
Mustang (from the Tibetan Muntan meaning "fertile plain") the traditional region is largely dry and arid. The world's deepest gorge that goes down three miles vertically between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains runs through this district.
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