After a passenger plane crashed in the Himalayas, emergency services recovered the last of the 22 fatalities.

This was announced by a Nepalese army spokesman on Twitter on Tuesday morning.

The bodies should therefore be taken from the accident site at more than 4000 meters in the foothills of the Himalayas to the capital Kathmandu as soon as the weather improves.

The bodies should be identified and then handed over to the relatives.

In addition to two Germans from Hesse, 16 Nepalese and four Indians were on board.

According to the police, the salvage work took longer than expected due to bad weather.

Air traffic control lost contact with the plane of the Nepalese airline Tara Air on Sunday morning.

The cause of the accident is still unclear.

According to the Air Traffic Safety Authority's website, the aircraft was built by Canadian manufacturer De Havilland and had made its maiden flight in 1979.

The plane, with 19 passengers and 3 crew members, was on its way from Pokhara - a popular tourist destination around 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu - to Jomsom, a flight that actually took around 15 to 20 minutes.

The Pokhara-Jomsom flight route is considered one of the most accident-prone routes in Nepal.

At least 74 people have died in five plane crashes along this route since 1997, according to the Nepali Times.