Plane with 22 people on board missing in Nepal

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.


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