Nepal: Plane goes missing

Tara Air mainly flies Canadian-built Twin Otter turboprop planes. “One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane,” the ...

Seven of the passengers were women, it said. "One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement. - "One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement.

The 43-year-old plane lost contact with airport authorities shortly after take off from Pokhara at 9.40am on Sunday morning, said plane-tracking data from ...

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The small aircraft had been on a 15-minute scheduled flight from the tourist town of Pokhara to the mountain town of Jomsom, and lost contact with the ...

It had been on a 15-minute scheduled flight from the tourist town of Pokhara to the mountain town of Jomsom, and lost contact with the airport tower shortly after take-off. The publication added that a helicopter has been dispatched to the area where the last contact was made, which was in Lete Pass. The small aircraft had been on a 15-minute scheduled flight from the tourist town of Pokhara to the mountain town of Jomsom, and lost contact with the airport tower shortly after take-off.

KATHMANDU, May 29 (Reuters) - A small passenger plane operated by a private airline went missing in mountainous Nepal on Sunday with 22 people on board ...

"The location of the aircraft remains unknown so far because of bad weather and complex terrain," it said in a statement. "It could be a fire by villagers or by cowherds. It was operated by Tara Air.

Nepal pauses rescue effort for missing passenger flight, citing weather ... Nepal has paused search-and-rescue efforts for a plane carrying 22 people that went ...

Nepali airlines are banned from flying in the airspace of the European Union because of “a lack of safety oversight by the aviation authorities” there. Search and rescue operation is on. The Nepali army spokesperson said around 2 p.m. that military personnel and helicopters were “trying to locate [the] plane,” which was thought to be “in and around Lete,” about 22 miles south of Jomsom.

Nepali army finds wreckage of Tara Air plane a day after it went missing with 22 people on board.

In early 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed on landing and caught fire, killing 51 of the 71 people on board Narayan Silwan, a spokesperson for the army, later posted a picture on Twitter of the wreckage with the plane’s tail number visible and parts of the aircraft shown scattered on the edge of a mountain. Rescue workers in Nepal have recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane that went down with 22 people on board.