1st LD: 22 bodies recovered following plane crash at Kathmandu airport

KATHMANDU, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-two dead bodies have been recovered after a domestic plane crashed on Wednesday at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, said Hansa Raj Pandey, spokesman at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.

Pandey told Xinhua that one injured person has been hospitalized, and the airport has been closed over the incident.

Of the 23 people on board of