A general view of a Tara Air plane crash site during the rescue operation at Thasang, Nepal, on May 30, 2022. (Fishtail Air Pvt Ltd Captain Nikalas Fjellgren/Handout via Reuters)
KATHMANDU—Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a remote region, an airport official said on Monday.
A Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, tail number 9N-AET, in Simikot, Nepal, on Dec. 1, 2021. (Madhu Thapa/via Reuters)
“The search for others is continuing,” said Tek Raj Sitaula, a spokesman for the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu.
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