Nepal Plane Crash: 22 Passengers Found Dead
 Nepalese officials announced on Tuesday that all 22 people on board the May 29 crashed plane were killed after rescue workers found and pulled the last body out of the wreckage. Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn said they are waiting for favourable weather to transport the remaining bodies from the crash site in the Himalayas to Kathmamis.
The plane's wreckage was discovered more than 20 hours after it was first reported midsing at an altitude of nearly 4,500 meters in Sanosware in Mustang, a Himalayan district northwest of Kathmandu, according to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. found. The rescue effort took longer than expected due to inclement weather and difficult terrain, police said. There were three crew members and nineteen passengers on board, sixteen of whom were Nepalese nationals, two Germans and four Indians. The Tara Airlines plane was making the short flight from Pokhara, some 200 kilometres west of Kathmandu, to Jomsom when it lost contact with air traffic control. The flight usually lasts around 20 minutes and is considered a particularly accident-prone route, also given the poor flight safety in Nepal. According to the Nepali Times, at least 74 people have died in five plane crashes along the route since 1997. Earlier Monday, the Nepalese authorities announced that they had formed a Commission to Investigate the Crash (NAN).
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