Missing flight with 22 onboard present in Nepal’s Mustang district

A 43-year-old airplane operated by a personal airline in Nepal that went lacking on Sunday with 22 folks on board was discovered at Kowang in Mustang.

“According to the information given by the locals to the Nepal Army, the Tara Air plane crashed at the mouth of the Lamche river under the landslide of Manapathi Himal. Nepal Army is moving towards the site from the ground and air route,” Nepal Army spokesperson Narayan Silwal was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

The Twin Otter 9N-AET airplane belonging to Nepal’s Tara Air took off at 9:55 am from Pokhara, and misplaced contact at 10:07 am, in keeping with an airline spokesperson.

How was the airplane situated?

A Nepal Army helicopter carrying 10 troopers and two workers of the civil aviation authority landed on the financial institution of a river close to the Narshang Monastery, the attainable website of the crash, in keeping with My Republica newspaper.

“A Nepal Army helicopter has landed on the river bank near Narshang Gumba,” Prem Nath Thakur, common supervisor of the Tribhuvan International Airport, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Interestingly, the airplane was situated after Nepal Telecom tracked down the cellphone of the airplane’s Captain Prabhakar Ghimire, by means of the Global Positioning System (GPS) community.

“The cell phone of Captain Ghimire of the missing aircraft has been ringing, and the Nepal Army’s helicopter has landed in the possible accident area after tracking the captain’s phone from Nepal Telecom,” Thakur mentioned.

“We have also sent Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel on foot for the search,” he added.

Who’s onboard?

The airline issued an inventory of passengers, 4 of whom had been recognized as Indians, apart from two Germans, 13 Nepali passengers, and a three-member Nepali crew.

“Tara Air flight 9NAET that took off from Pokhara at 9.55 AM today with 22 people onboard, including 4 Indians, has gone missing. Search and rescue operation is on. The embassy is in touch with their family. Our emergency hotline number:+977-9851107021,” the Indian embassy in Nepal tweeted.

Tara Air flight 9NAET that took off from Pokhara at 9.55 AM at present with 22 folks onboard, together with 4 Indians, has gone lacking. Search and rescue operation is on. The embassy is in contact with their household.

Our emergency hotline quantity :+977-9851107021. https://t.co/2aVhUrB82b

— IndiaInNepal (@IndiaInNepal) May 29, 2022

The plane was scheduled to land at Jomsom Airport within the western mountainous area at 10:15 am.

The plane misplaced contact with the tower from the sky above Ghorepani on the Pokhara-Jomsom air route, aviation sources mentioned.

According to an air site visitors controller at Jomsom Airport, they’d an unconfirmed report a couple of loud noise in Ghasa, Jomsom.

The climate circumstances on the Pokhara-Jomsom route are at the moment cloudy with rainfall, which is affecting the search operations, in keeping with the airline’s sources.

Earlier, Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand had directed authorities to accentuate the search operations for the lacking plane.

The plane was final tracked taking a flip towards the Dhaulagiri Peak, officers mentioned.

(With company enter)