Officials stated that rescuers exploring a mountaintop in Nepal found the bodies of 21 of the 22 passengers who were on board a plane that crashed a day earlier.
The search for the remaining individual is still on, according to Kathmandu airport spokeswoman Tek Nath Sitaula.
Because some people were pinned beneath the plane’s debris, recovery attempts were delayed. With their bare hands, rescuers struggled to move the metal debris.
According to the Associated Press, aerial pictures of the crash site showed airplane pieces dispersed over rocks and moss on the side of a mountain valley.
The Tara Air turboprop Twin Otter lost contact with the airport tower on Sunday while flying on a scheduled 20-minute flight in an area of deep river gorges and mountaintops.
Four Indians and two Germans were on the plane, Tara Air said. The three crew members and other passengers were Nepali nationals, it said.
German news agency dpa reported that the two Germans were a man and a woman from the western state of Hesse.
Local news reports said the passengers included two Nepali families, one with four members and the other with seven.
The army said the plane crashed in Sanosware in Mustang district close to the mountain town of Jomsom, where it was heading after taking off from the resort town of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu.
AHN