Identifying bodies and accounting for all 72 people has been difficult because of the state of the remains, said Ajay K.C, a police official at the rescue site.
While rescue operations are still on, at least 40 people are reported dead in Sunday’s accident at Pokhara International Airport. There were 72 people aboard.
There were 72 people on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, including 2 infants, 4 crew members & 10 foreign nationals, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula.
A Boeing 737-800 jet had plummeted from cruising altitude in a near-vertical descent to crash in the hills near the Chinese city of Wuzhou on 21 March.
While there have been a handful of crashes in which an airliner plunged from cruising altitude, few, if any, fit the extreme profile of the Boeing 737-800.
SpiceJet, Vistara, Air India and Air India Express have Boeing 737 aircraft in their fleets. Boeing 737 Max — an advanced version of Boeing 737-800 — is already banned in India.
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