Nepal Plane With 22 Onboard Crashes, Four Indians In Plane Were On Pilgrimage To Muktinath Temple
A small Nepalese private airlines plane with 22 people on board including four Indians has gone missing in the mountainous region of the Himalayan nation after it took off from Pokhara on Sunday morning. The aircraft lost contact with the tower 15 minutes after it flew. There are four Indian nationals two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers besides a three-member Nepali crew.
A small Nepalese private airlines plane with 22 people on board, including four Indians, has gone missing in the mountainous region of the Himalayan nation after it took off from the tourist city of Pokhara on Sunday morning, officials said.
According to the latest reports, the plane has crashed, allegedly due to bad weather. The possible crash site has also been located.
Just in: Tara Air's Plane crash has been confirmed. Officials and authorities are trying to reach the site. As per Airlines representative, the crash site is somewhere near Naurikot, Mustang. No other details about the crash has been confirmed yet. Let's hope for Good.
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The Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air, which took off at 10:15 a.m. from Pokhara, lost contact with the tower 15 minutes after it flew, according to a spokesperson at the Tara Air.
We are following reports that a Tara Air Twin Otter is missing in Nepal. The aircraft took off from Pokhara at 04:10 UTC time. We received the last ADS-B signal at 04:22 UTC. Our ADS-B coverage in the area is limited.https://t.co/H6eCK6iknO pic.twitter.com/H3pXLUpGa5
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There are four Indian nationals, two Germans, and 13 Nepali passengers besides a three-member Nepali crew, said Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson at the airlines.
Unconfirmed report of loud noise
The three-member crew of the aircraft was led by captain Prabhakar Prasad Ghimire. The aircraft was scheduled to land at Jomsom Airport in the Western mountainous region at 10:15 a.m.
The aircraft lost contact with the tower from the sky above Ghorepani on the Pokhara-Jomsom air route, aviation sources said.
According to an air traffic controller at Jomsom Airport, they have an unconfirmed report about loud noise in Ghasa of Jomsom.
It is suspected that the aircraft crashed in the Dhaulagiri area, My Republica newspaper quoted DSP Ram Kumar Dani of Mustang as saying.
Dani said that a helicopter had flown from Jomsom to search for the aircraft.
This is a developing story
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