KATHMANDU, Nepal
Despite Nepalese authorities
saying the chance of finding survivors of the Yeti Airlines plane crash was
‘nil,’ drones were deployed in search of the one remaining passenger still
unaccounted for on Tuesday.
Rescue and recovery efforts
near Pokhara, where the turboprop plane went down on Sunday with 72 people on
board, have been affected by inclement weather and difficult terrain.
Emergency teams have been
rappelling down the cliffs, searching underwater, and utilizing drone
technology to scour every part of the deep gorge near the crash for bodies of
the last passengers.
Authorities began returning
the bodies of victims to grieving family members on Tuesday. Nepal
observed a day of mourning on Monday for the 68 passengers and four crew
members who were on the plane.
Sunday’s plane crash was
Nepal’s deadliest air accident in 30 years.
The flight plummeted into a
gorge while attempting to land at the newly opened Pokhara International
Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Nepal, home to eight of the
world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, has challenging
topography for aircraft.
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