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The 'black box' of the aircraft belonging to the Yeti Airlines that crashed in Pokhara on Sunday has been found. Spokesperson of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) Jagannath Niraula said that the black box of the crashed aircraft was found this morning. The black box is an important device of the aircraft that helps in finding out the causes of the air crash. It contains the flight radar record and the cockpit voice recorder. ALSO READ: 69 dead, 3 missing in plane crash at Seti gorge CAAN spokesperson Niraula said that the black box has been handed over to the Nepal Army. It will be brought to Kathmandu today itself and handed to the Air Crash Investigation Commission.

The bodies of 26 passengers on board the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Seti gorge on Sunday have been identified. Among the 67 dead bodies taken to Pokhara Institute of Health Sciences, 26 have been identified so far, said District Police Office Kaski spokesperson Gyan Bahadur Khadka. Khadkda said that the relatives have been requested to come to receive the bodies that have been identified. ALSO READ: 69 dead, 3 missing in plane crash at Seti gorge

It has been confirmed that Parbat lost 10 of its residents in the Yeti Airlines plane crash that took place in Pokhara on Sunday. All the ten have been identified as Tribhuvan Paudel, central member of Federation of Nepali Journalists, of Kushma Municipality-14, Arun Paudel,46, and his 11-year-old daughter Prashti of Kushma-9, Rachna Kafle and her 10-month-old son Rihan Paudel of Kushma-1. Similarly, Bijay Gurung of Modi Rural Municipality-1, and four members of the Sharma family including mother Jamuna Sharma and her Yubaraj Sharma and grand-children Ayurdi Sharma and Bebi Sharma of Uram in Bihadi-5 Pokhara also have been confirmed dead in the crash. Assistant Chief District Officer of Kaski Gurudatta Dhakal said that the bodies of all those who lost their lives from Parbat have been identified and hence the bodies will be handed over to their relatives today. ALSO READ: 69 dead, 3 missing in plane crash at Seti gorge  

Rescue teams have recovered 68 bodies from the Yeti Airlines plane crash site so far. They are searching for the remaining four. Police said that the bodies have been brought to the Gandaki Hospital. A Yeti Airlines plane carrying 68 passengers crashed in Pokhara on Sunday. The plane with call sign ATR-72 took off from Kathmandu to Pokhara at 10: 33 am today, police said. According to Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson of the Yeti Airlines, there were two pilots, two air hostesses and 68 passengers on board the ill-fated aircraft that crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport this morning.