A team of experts from France, which is in Nepal to help the government investigate the crash of Yeti Airlines’ aircraft with 72 people on board, on Wednesday began its probe and visited the accident site in the resort city of Pokhara, officials said.
The nine-member team is enquiring with the airlines’ staff and concerned authorities in Pokhara to understand details of the ATR-72 aircraft crash, which has left 71 people dead, including five Indians, according to the Yeti Airlines official.
The aircraft that took off from Kathmandu at 10:30 am crashed into Seti river gorge on Sunday, killing all four crew members and 68 passengers. One person on board the aircraft is still missing.
The government has formed a five-member probe committee to investigate the crash – Nepal’s deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years.
Out of 49 bodies brought at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital at Maharjgunj in Kathmandu, postmortem have been performed on 23 bodies, according to doctors at the hospital.
The bodies will be handed over to the family members of the victims of the crash on Thursday.
Twenty-two bodies of Nepali nationals have already been handed over to their relatives by the Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, where the doctors completed the postmortem on Tuesday.
Many bodies are burnt or split in parts, thus making it challenging to identify.
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