Black box of crashed plane recovered

The black box of the Yeti Airlines aircraft has been recovered from the accident site around Monday noon. The black box of the crashed aircraft has been found at the accident site and it has already been handed over to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), informed spokesperson at Yeti Airlines Bartaula.

So far, 26 dead bodies recovered from the crash site has been identified, he said. All the preparations for conducting postmortem on the dead bodies have been completed and the process will start soon, he informed.

A medical team has been airlifted from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. As soon as they reach in Pokhara, the postmortem will start at Western Regional Hospital in Pokhara, he added. So far, 69 dead bodies have been recovered from the accident site and search is going on for the remaining four bodies. As the accident site lies in a deep gorge of Seti river, it was very difficult for search operations, army sources said.