POKHARA, Nepal – Search teams on Monday recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a passenger plane that crashed into a gorge while approaching a new airport in the Himalayas on Sunday.
Officials are investigating the cause of the crash, which resulted in the deaths of at least 69 of the 72 people on board. The three missing passengers are believed to have also died.
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Rescue workers continued to search through debris scattered in a 300-meter-deep gorge.
Many of the passengers were returning to Pokhara, a city popular with tourists visiting the Annapurna Circuit hiking trail.
Relatives and friends gathered outside a local hospital, demanding that post mortems be expedited so they could hold funerals for their loved ones.
The cause of the crash, which occurred on a mild day with little wind, remains unclear.
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