A staff of consultants from France, which is in Nepal to assist the federal government examine the crash of Yeti Airlines’ plane with 72 folks on board, on Wednesday started its probe and visited the accident web site in the resort metropolis of Pokhara, officers stated.

The nine-member staff is enquiring with the airways’ workers and anxious authorities in Pokhara to grasp particulars of the ATR-72 plane crash, which has left 71 folks lifeless, together with 5 Indians, based on the Yeti Airlines official.

The plane that took off from Kathmandu at 10:30 am crashed into Seti river gorge on Sunday, killing all 4 crew members and 68 passengers. One particular person on board the plane continues to be lacking.

The authorities has shaped a five-member probe committee to analyze the crash – Nepal’s deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years.

The probe panel headed by former aviation secretary Nagendra Ghimire has been requested to analyze the accident and submit its report inside 45 days.

The ATR-72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed in France and Italy by plane producer ATR, which is a three way partnership between French aerospace firm Aerospatiale and Italian aviation conglomerate Aeritalia.

Meanwhile, the Nepali Army staff continued search operations in the Seti gorge to search for the stays of the plane, an Army personnel stated.

The military stated the search operation will proceed on Thursday too.

Out of 49 our bodies introduced on the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital at Maharjgunj in Kathmandu, postmortem have been carried out on 23 our bodies, based on docs on the hospital.

The our bodies will probably be handed over to the members of the family of the victims of the crash on Thursday, stated Sudarshan Bartaula, a spokesperson on the Yeti Airlines.

The postmortem of the remaining our bodies will begin on Thursday.

Twenty-two our bodies of Nepali nationals have already been handed over to their kin by the Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, the place the docs accomplished the postmortem on Tuesday.

Many our bodies are burnt or break up in components, thus making it difficult to determine.

The our bodies went via DNA assessments after postmortem earlier than they have been handed over to their members of the family, Bartaula stated.

The DNA identification formality has thus prompted a delay in handing over the lifeless our bodies to the members of the family, who’ve been complaining in regards to the prolonged process.

According to Nepal’s civil aviation physique, 914 folks have died in air crashes in the nation because the first catastrophe was recorded in August 1955.

The Yeti Airlines tragedy in Pokhara on Sunday is the 104th crash in Nepali skies and the third largest in phrases of casualties.

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