Nepalese officials on Tuesday confirmed that all the 22 people on board the plane that crashed on May 29 were killed after rescuers found and recovered the last body from the wreckage.
The spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Deo Chandra Lal Karn, said that they are waiting for favourable weather to transport the remaining bodies to Kathmandu from the crash site in the Himalayas. Lal Karn explained that ten bodies were brought to Kathmandu by helicopter on Monday evening, adding that the bodies would be identified before being handed over to family members.
The plane’s wreckage was found at an altitude of almost 4,500 metres in Sanosware in Mustang, a Himalayan district north-west of Kathmandu, more than 20 hours after it was first reported missing, according to the Ministry of Culture Tourism and Civil Aviation.
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