Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last two people - Reuters

KATHMANDU, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Searchers utilized drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) heavy gorge successful Nepal's second-biggest metropolis connected Tuesday to hunt for 2 radical unaccounted for aft the country's deadliest plane crash successful 30 years killed astatine slightest 70 people.

Difficult terrain and inclement upwind was hampering rescue efforts adjacent the tourer metropolis of Pokhara, wherever the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 radical crashed successful wide upwind connected Sunday conscionable earlier landing.

"There is heavy fog present now. We are sending hunt and rescue unit utilizing ropes into the gorge wherever parts of the level fell and was successful flames," Ajay K.C., a constabulary authoritative successful Pokhara who is portion of the rescue efforts, told Reuters.

Searchers recovered 2 much bodies connected Monday earlier the hunt was called disconnected due to the fact that of fading light.

"There were tiny children among the passengers. Some mightiness person been burnt and died, and whitethorn not beryllium recovered out. We volition proceed to look for them," K.C. said.

An airdrome authoritative said 48 bodies were brought to the superior Kathmandu connected Tuesday and sent to a infirmary for autopsies, portion 22 bodies were being handed implicit to families successful Pokhara.

Medical unit successful idiosyncratic protective instrumentality and masks helped transport shrouded bodies from stretchers to a conveyance earlier they were flown to Kathmandu, Reuters pictures showed.

Television channels showed weeping relatives waiting for the bodies of their loved ones extracurricular a infirmary successful Pokhara.

On Monday, searchers found the cockpit dependable recorder and formation information recorder from the flight, some successful bully condition, a find that is apt to assistance investigators find what caused the crash.

Under planetary aviation rules, the clang probe agencies of the countries wherever the level and engines were designed and built are automatically portion of the inquiry.

ATR is based successful France and the plane's engines were manufactured successful Canada by Pratt & Whitney Canada (RTX.N).

French and Canadian aerial mishap investigators person said they program to enactment successful the probe.

Reporting by Gopal Sharma, penning by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Jamie Freed

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