Yeti plane crash Updates: 68 bodies recovered so far

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal says it has recovered 62 bodies of the victims of Sunday morning’s Pokhara plane crash.

An ATR 72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines, which was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara with 68 passengers and four crew members, crashed in a Seti gorge.

According to rescue officials at the crash site, the recovery of bodies is ongoing and more deaths are expected.

Nepal Army spokesperson Krishna Bhandari says security personnel have continued the search and rescue mission, which has been delayed due to the depth of the gorge and continuously billowing smoke from the wreckage.

There were 72 people on board the aircraft involved in the crash.

Of them, 68 were passengers and four crew members. Of the passengers, 15 were foreigners and 53 were Nepalis.

The passengers included 62 adults, three children and three incapacitated people.

Here is the detail of the nationalities of the passengers:

Nepalis: 53
Indians: 5
Russians: 4
Irish: 1
Korean: 2
Argentinian: 1
Australian: 1
French: 1

Over the last 30 years, there have been nearly 30 fatal plane crashes in Nepal, the most recent–before the Pokhara plane crash today–being a Tara Air crash, in May 2022, killing 22 people on board.