Nepal plane crash: Rescuers recover 14 bodies from wreckage; no survivors found yet

UPDATE AT 13:20

• Officials present at plane crash site have recovered 16 bodies so far: Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.

A day after a twin-engine aircraft carrying 22 passengers crashed in Nepal's Mustang district, search and rescue team, on Monday, May 30, said that survivors were found at crash site yet as y pulled out 14 bodies from wreck of Tara Airlines plane.  

passenger plane operated by a private airline in Nepal went missing on Sunday, with 22 people on board, including four Indians. Tara Air 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft, en route to  Jomsom airport lost contact while flying over Pokhara, some 200 km rthwest of capital, Kathmandu.  aircraft, which was on a 17-minute scheduled flight, lost contact shortly after take-off at 9:55 am local time. Later, on Sunday evening, wreck of aircraft was located at Kowang in Nepal's Mustang. 

Following adverse wear conditions and loss of daylight, search and rescue operations were halted on Sunday evening before resuming on Monday morning.  Union Home Ministry had deployed two private helicopters from Mustang and Pokhara for engaging in operation for missing aircraft. Additionally, a Nepal Army chopper was also deployed for search. 

airline issued list of passengers, which included four Indians - Ashok Kumar Tripathy, his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar (Tripathy), and ir children Dhanush and Ritika. family was based in Thane city near Mumbai.

Dana-based tourism entrepreneur Indra Singh Sherchan, who reached crash site, said that plane was found in a completely damd condition. Singh said that re was fire on aircraft. aircraft could have met with an accident after hitting a cliff nearby.

Rescuers on Monday pulled out 14 bodies from wreck of Tara Airlines plane. Canadian-built plane was flying from city of Pokhara to Jomsom, a popular tourist town in central Nepal.

wreck of a plane was found in country's Mustang district on Monday, Nepal Army said.

Pieces of wreck of passenger plane that crashed on Sunday morning were found at 14,500ft in Sa Sware Bhir of Thasang in Mustang district in rthwestern Nepal, after nearly 20 hours since plane went missing, Nepal Army said on Monday.