Locals watch the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal. AP

Kathmandu: After Monday’s horrific air crash in Nepal that led to the demise of 70 people, rescue personnel have begun utilizing drones and tunnelling down a gorge a minimum of 200 metres deep in Nepal’s second-biggest metropolis on Tuesday to search for two people who’re nonetheless missing.

Sunday’s air crash was the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in practically 30 years and killed a minimum of 70 people on board.

Bad climate and rocky mountainous terrain have been hampering rescue efforts close to Pokhara, the place the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed in clear climate on Sunday minutes earlier than touchdown.

“There is thick fog here now. We are sending search and rescue personnel using ropes into the gorge where parts of the plane fell and was in flames,” Ajay Ok.C., a police official in Pokhara who’s a part of the rescue efforts stated. Searchers discovered two extra our bodies on Monday earlier than the search was referred to as off due to fading mild.

“There were small children among the passengers. Some might have been burnt and died, and may not be found out. We will continue to look for them,” Ok.C. stated.

According to an airport official, 48 our bodies had been introduced to capital Kathmandu on Tuesday and despatched to a hospital for publish mortem examinations, whereas 22 our bodies had been being handed over to households in Pokhara.

Rescue personnel in protecting gear helped transfer the our bodies to stretchers after which they had been flown to Kathmandu. On Monday, searchers discovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge recorder from the plane, each in good situation, a discovery that’s seemingly to assist investigators decide what brought on the crash.

Under worldwide aviation guidelines, the crash investigation businesses of the international locations the place the plane and engines had been designed and constructed are robotically a part of the investigation. ATR relies in France and the plane’s engines had been manufactured in Canada by Pratt & Whitney Canada (RTX.N).

French and Canadian air accident investigators have stated they plan to be actively concerned within the probe.

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