Today, Monday, Nepalese relief teams found 16 bodies among the rubble of a passenger plane that crashed yesterday in the Himalayas, with 22 people on board.
The Nepalese army announced that it had located the crash site, which disappeared in cloudy skies.
Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karen told AFP that 16 bodies had been found so far, and the search is still going on to find the remaining six people. "The chances of survival are small, but our efforts are continuing to find them."
Contact was lost with the Tara Air Twin Otter shortly after it took off from Pokhara (western Nepal) on Sunday morning to go to Jomsom, a popular destination for people heading to the Himalayas.
Helicopters belonging to the army and private companies scoured the remote mountainous region throughout Sunday, with the help of ground teams, but suspended the search as night fell.
After search operations resumed on Monday, the military spokesman said on Twitter that "search and rescue forces have located the crash site" and posted a picture of the wreckage with the plane's tail number clearly visible and parts of the plane scattered over the edge of a mountain.
The plane was on a 20-minute flight before losing contact with the control tower, carrying 4 Indians, 2 Germans and 16 Nepalese, the airline and government officials said.
Nepal has 8 of the 14 highest mountains in the world, including Mount Everest.
This country also has a record of aircraft accidents, and it is known that its weather can change suddenly, and its airstrips are usually in mountainous locations that are difficult to reach.
A Bangladesh American Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed on landing in early 2018, killing 51 of the 71 people on board.
This was the deadliest accident in Nepal since 1992 when all 167 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed as it approached Kathmandu airport.
Two months before the accident, a Thai Airways plane crashed near the same airport, killing 113 people.