As they await autopsies and the corpses of the Nepal aircraft accident victims, grieving families are becoming antsy. On Sunday, a Yeti Airlines jet carrying 72 people crashed into a canyon while approaching the newly built Pokhara International Airport in the Himalayas. None survived. “It has been four days, yet no one is listening to us,” a saddened Madan Kumar Jaiswal said on Wednesday outside the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine in Kathmandu.
He wanted the postmortem done fast so families could collect their loved ones’ corpses. “They’ll test your DNA. “My daughter is dead,” stated Ashok Rayamagi, father of another victim. The Wednesday autopsy were unreported, although numerous victims were extensively charred. Ajay K C, a rescue site police employee, said the condition of the remains has made identifying corpses and accounting for all 72 persons impossible. “Until the medical tests indicate all 72 corpses, we’ll continue searching for the remaining person,” Ajay added. After the disaster, search crews uncovered 68 dead and two more on Monday before calling off the search. Officials retrieved one additional corpse late Tuesday afternoon. Police used divers and drones to find the last missing individual on Wednesday. “No survivor can be found. We have 71 bodies. On Wednesday, Pokhara’s senior district official, Tek Bahadur K C, said the hunt for the final one will continue. Workers shut down a Seti River dam to search the 300-metre-deep (984-foot-deep) gorge for the remains. Gurudutt Ghimire, another search officer, claimed they diverted the river to find corpses. “Nothing remains. Ghimire said the search will continue. Some aviation experts believe the plane stalled, but the cause is unknown.
In Pokhara, the entrance to Himalayan trekking trails, ATR aircraft specialists examined the accident scene. The aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder were located in excellent condition on Monday, helping investigators pinpoint the crash’s cause. The “black boxes” will be submitted to the French manufacturer’s recommendation as Nepal cannot decipher them. EASA spokeswoman Janet Northcote said the Cologne-based EU Aviation Safety Agency was also investigating with BEA.
