AFP PHOTOPOKHARA, Nepal: Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 passengers from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said on Tuesday as they began identifying the victims. It suffered its last fatal accident in 2016 on the same route when a plane with 23 onboard crashed into a mountainside. The European Union has banned all Nepali airlines from its airspace over safety concerns. In March 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines plane crash-landed near Kathmandu's notoriously difficult international airport, killing 51 people and seriously injuring 20. That accident was Nepal's deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed on approaching the Kathmandu airport.

Source: Manila Times May 31, 2022 22:37 UTC