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The Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Tara Air, which took off at 10:15 am from Pokhara, lost contact with the tower 15 minutes after it flew, ...

The world's deepest gorge that goes down three miles vertical between Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains runs through this district. Nepal Army chopper is also being prepared to be deployed for the search, said Phadindra Mani Pokharel, spokesperson at Home Ministry told ANI over the phone. We are deploying a helicopter to the area for the search operation," Ram Kumar Dani, DSP of District Police Office, Mustang told ANI.

KATHMANDU, May 29: A helicopter that flew from Pokhara to Jomsom in search of a Tara Air aircraft has returned without any success due to bad weather.

Of the total passengers inside the plane captained by Prabhakar Ghimire, four are Indian nationals, 13 are Nepalis while two are foreigners. According to Pokhara Airport Information Officer Dev Raj Adhikari, the twin otter with the call sign 9N AET left Pokhara Airport this morning carrying 19 passengers and three crew members. Chief District Officer of Mustang, Netra Prasad Sharma said that the plane has still not come into contact.

A plane operated by Nepal's Tara Air carrying 22 people went missing at 9:55 a.m. local time on Sunday, an airline spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

One search helicopter was forced to return to Jomsom due to the conditions. The plane lost contact with the control tower five minutes before it was due to land at Jomsom, an airline official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The nationalities of two passengers are unknown.

The Nepal plane Twin Otter 9N-AET took off at 10:15 am from Pokhara, and lost contact with the control tower 15 minutes later, according to an airline ...

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Nepal Tara Air plane missing LIVE: Reports indicated possible bad weather in the region, which has been experiencing rainfall over the past few days but ...

Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in a valley. It may be severe in children, pregnant women or persons with immunosuppression due to other conditions. On Sunday morning, another Tara Air flight - which had 22 people aboard, including four Indians - went missing.Read more As many as 16 Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans were on board the aircraft. - May 29, 2022 06:20 PM IST Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in a valley.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said it has traced the potential location of the aircraft in Khaibang based on an emergency locator transmitter (ELT).

An earlier version said the plane lost contact at 9:55am. “The area is blanketed in dense clouds and it has started to rain too.” “We have mobilised our search and rescue teams from both ground and aerial operations.

A plane operated by Nepal's Tara Air carrying 22 people went missing on Sunday morning, an airline spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

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 ...

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Tara Air's 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft, which went missing in the mountainous district of Mustang in Nepal on Sunday morning, was found at Kowang vil.

(PTI) The ground is accessing the situation," Tribhuwan International Airport chief confirmed. According to the information given by the locals to the Nepal Army, the plane crashed at the mouth of the Lamche river under the landslide of Manapathi Himal. There is no word on survivors, and the fate of the 22 people on board, including four Indians, remains unknown. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that it has traced the potential location of the aircraft in Khaibang based on an emergency locator transmitter. However, due to bad weather, the search operations have been halted for the day. Tara Air's 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft, which went missing in the mountainous district of Mustang in Nepal on Sunday morning, was found at Kowang village of the district, Nepal airport officials said.

KATHMANDU (AP) -- Rescuers zeroed in on a possible location of a passenger plane with 22 people aboard that is feared to have crashed Sunday in cloudy.

In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Jumla crashed, killing all 18 on board. Another Canadian company, Viking Air, brought the model back into production in 2010. In 2012, an Agni Air plane also flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed, killing 15 people. Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in a valley. He said that officials can only verify the information once the troops reached the location. The plane has not yet been located," he said.

Nepal's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission in its probe report said, "Despite unfavourable weather conditions, the crew's repeated decision to enter ...

Incidentally, Nepal with its mountainous terrain has its own unique pattern with air accidents. "This accident could have ended with the same fate since it was a cloudy day over mountains," said Capt Singh aircraft operating a flight from Pokhara to Jomson crashed into mountain enroute.

The Twin Otter aircraft carrying 19 passengers and three crew members was en route from Pokhara to Jomsom when it went missing minutes into the flight.

The area is blanketed in dense clouds and it started to rain too.” The Twin Otter with call sign 9N-AET had departed from Pokhara for Jomsom at 9:55 am. “We have mobilised our search and rescue teams from both ground and aerial operations. The government had deployed helicopters and police personnel for ground and aerial search immediately after the plane went missing. Flying the Pokhara-Jomsom route, however, is challenging. Our search and rescue team with HC [sic, for helicopter] is on standby at Jomsom.” Other devices have shown the suspected site at 13,000ft. Brigadier General Narayan Silwal, spokesperson for the Nepal Army, said in a tweet on Sunday evening: “NA [sic, for Nepal Army] has halted all efforts of search and rescue for today due to loss of daylight and adverse weather. The aircraft took off at 9:55am and lost contact with air control about 12 minutes later at 10:07am, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. A flight from Pokhara to Jomsom usually takes 20 minutes. The ELT is an emergency beacon used in aircraft to alert rescue authorities and to indicate the location and identity of an aircraft in distress. The Nepal Army too sent its personnel as it flew its chopper for search operations.

The Tara Air plane was on a 20-minute scheduled flight on Sunday from the resort town of Pokhara when it went missing.

An aerial photo the army posted on Twitter of the crash site showed parts of the aircraft scattered around the mountainside. The Tara Air turboprop Twin Otter was on a 20-minute flight Sunday when it the lost contact with the airport tower while flying in an area of deep river gorges and mountaintops just before it was scheduled to land. - A photo of the crash site showed parts of the aircraft scattered around the mountainside

On February 24, 2016, a total of 23 passengers died after a Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft operating a flight from Pokhara to Jomson crashed into a mountain ...

Determining the age of the aircraft is further complicated by the fact that individual aircraft components age differently depending on these factors,” says a 2007 study by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau looked into the impact of ageing aircraft on aviation safety. In its Aviation Safety Report 2021 the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said: “CFIT is the number one safety risk category in Nepal resulting 77% of fatalities, but with just 33% of accidents in the last 10 years” . Aircraft primarily related to STOL (short take off and landing) airfields witnessed 8 fatal accidents out of 16 accidents, whereas the aircraft operating in trunk sector witnessed just one fatal accident out of 3 accidents in the last 10 years, it said. “There is no single criteria that defines an aircraft as ‘old’ . The age of an aircraft depends on factors including the chronological age, the number of flight cycles, and the number of flight hours. On February 24, 2016, a total of 23 passengers died after a Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft operating a flight from Pokhara to Jomson crashed into a mountain enroute. Another aspect that would be looked into by the investigating team is the aircraft maintenance records, given that the Twin Otter that crashed on Sunday is a 43-year old aircraft. “This accident could have ended with the same fate since it was a cloudy day over the mountains,” said Capt Singh