Nepal plane crash: Irishman on board named locally as search resumes for missing passengers

Nepal plane crash: Irish man on board named locally as search resumes for missing passengers

Pokhara police official Ajay KC said the search-and-rescue operation, which stopped because of darkness on Sunday, had resumed.

“We will take out the five bodies from the gorge and search for the remaining four that are still missing,” he told Reuters.Rescuers were also searching for the black boxes – a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder – as they looked for survivors, said Jagannath Niroula, a spokesman for Nepal’s civil aviation authority.

Eyewitness footage shows the final moment of an aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines as it crashed in Pokhara in Nepal. Nepal has declared a day of national mourning on Monday and set up a panel to investigate the disaster and suggest measures to avoid such incidents in future.Nearly 350 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal – home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest – where sudden weather changes can make for hazardous conditions. – Reuters

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