Rescuers scour the crash site in the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, January16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday as rescue workers resumed the search for six missing people a day after a plane to a tourist town crashed into a gorge while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 66 of the 72 people aboard in the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (Photo by Yunish Gurung/AP Photo)





Relatives of a crashed passenger plane wail at Katmandhu airport, Nepal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. A passenger plane with 72 people on board has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reports. The plane was carrying 68 passengers and four crew members. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





People watch rescuers work at the site of plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (Photo by Yunish Gurung/AP Photo)





Nepalese rescue workers and civilians gather around the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. Authorities in Nepal said 68 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara. It's the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (Photo by Krishna Mani Baral/AP Photo)





A woman cries as the body of a relative, victim of a plane crash, is brought to a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, January 15, 2023. (Photo by Yunish Gurung/AP Photo)





Family members receive the body of a victim of Sunday's plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, January 16, 2023. At least 69 of the 72 people aboard were killed, and officials believe the three missing are also dead. Rescuers combed through the debris, scattered down a 300-meter-deep (984-foot-deep) gorge, for them. (Photo by Yunish Gurung)/AP Photo





A man holds a candle during a vigil in memory of victims of a plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, January 16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday as rescue workers resumed the search for six missing people a day after a plane to a tourist town crashed into a gorge while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 66 of the 72 people aboard in the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





A helicopter carrying bodies of victims of a plane crash arrives in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of victims of a flight that crashed Sunday, and said they were sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country's deadliest plane accident in 30 years. (Photo by Bikram Rai/AP Photo)





A rescue team recovers the bodies of victims from the site of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines-operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal on January 17, 2023. The Yeti Airlines flight with 68 passengers and four crew plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames as it approached the central city of Pokhara on January 15, in Nepal's worst aviation disaster since 1992. (Photo by Sulav Shrestha/Reuters)





Rescuers carry the body of a victim who died in a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara on January 16, 2023. Nepal observed a day of mourning on January 16 for the victims of the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades, with 67 people confirmed killed in the plane crash. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Family members of victims who died in a Yeti Airlines plane crash, weep outside a hospital in Pokhara on January 17, 2023. The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames as it approached the central city of Pokhara on January 15, in Nepal's worst aviation disaster since 1992. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Relatives and friends perform last rites of the plane crash victims, in Pokhara, Nepal, Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Nepalese authorities are returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and are sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused the country's deadliest air accident in 30 years. The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, killing all 72 aboard. (Photo by Yunish Gurung/AP Photo)





Nepalese Hindu devotees bathe on the month-long Swasthani festival in the Triveni River, Panauti village on January 25, 2023. The month-long festival, dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by them in many Hindu households. (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Hindu devotee offer prayers by rolling on the ground as a part of a ritual during the “Madhav Narayan” festival in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Kathmandu on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A child, helped by his father, writes a message with chalk on a wall at the Saraswati temple on the occasion of the Hindu festival of “Basanta Panchami”, in Kathmandu on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Nepalese Hindu devotees gather to bathe on the first day of the month-long Swasthani festival in the Triveni River, Panauti village on January 25, 2023. The month-long festival, dedicated to God Madhavnarayan and Goddess Swasthani, involves the recitation of folk tales about miraculous feats performed by them in many Hindu households. (Photo by Prabin Ranabhat/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Girls from Newar community gesture as they attend a Bel Bibaha or Ihi ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal on Februay 1, 2023. Bel Bibaha, or Ihi, is a marriage ceremony in the Newar community of Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are ''married'' to the bael fruit (wood apple). Girls from Newar community are married thrice in their life, to the bael fruit and the sun before marrying a human. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





Hindu devotees take part in a bathing ritual on the last day of the month-long Madhav Narayan festival along the river Hanumante in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on February 5, 2023. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A man transports chicken on a motorscooter to the chicken market in Kathmandu, Nepal, 07 February 2023. Cases of bird flu, or avian influenza, infections have been confirmed in three places in the Kathmandu Valley, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), causing a drop in sales of chicken in the valley after the spread of the flu news. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)





Sadhu (holyman) rests upon arrival for the upcoming Hindu festival Maha Shivaratri at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 09 February 2023. Hundreds of Sadhus from across the country and neighboring India arrive to celebrate the birthday of lord Shiva, the god of creation and destruction which falls on 18 February 2023. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)