Three crew members and 19 passengers are on board the aircraft. The flight was operating between the Nepalese cities of Pokhara and Jomson.
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A plane carrying 22 people was reported missing over a mountainous area in Nepal, the airline Tara Air announced on Sunday May 29. “Contact was lost with a domestic flight heading to Jomsom from Pokhara”said a spokesperson for the Kathmandu-based company.
The twin-engine Twin Otter had taken off from the city of Pokhara (central-western Nepal) at 9:55 a.m. (local time) before losing radio contact. Three crew members and 19 passengers are on board the aircraft, he said.
Phanindra Mani Pokharel, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said two helicopters were dispatched for the search operations. But visibility is poor and bad weather could slow down search operations. Jomsom, known as a starting point for trekkers in the Himalayas, is a 20-minute flight from Pokhara, the country’s second largest city, 200 km west of the capital Kathmandu.