The route is notorious for its plane crashes. Now another plane crashed on the way from Pokhara to Jomsom.
Around two days 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. The bodies remaining at the scene of the accident at around 4000 meters in the foothills of the Himalayas are to be taken to the capital Kathmandu. In addition to two Germans, 16 Nepalese and four Indians were on board.
Air traffic control lost contact with the plane of the Nepalese airline Tara Air on Sunday morning. The plane was en route from Pokhara – a popular tourist destination around 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu – to Jomsom with 19 passengers and 3 crew members.
The Pokhara-Jomsom flight route is considered one of the most accident-prone routes in Nepal. According to the Nepali Times, at least 74 people have died in five plane crashes on this route since 1997.
