Nepal Army physically locates plane air crash site

The Nepali Army has physically located the Tara Airlines plane crash site in the countrys Mustang district its Spokesperson Brigadier General Narayan Silwal said on MondayThe turboprop Twin Otter 9NAET plane had four Indian nationals two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers besides a threemember Nepali crewNepal Army physically locates site of crashed aircraftRead ANI Story httpstcoTnFxq1lRwDNepalArmy NepalPlaneCrash pictwittercomUu2hAvVMJumdash ANI Digital ani_digital May 30 2022Nepal Crashed Tara Air aircraft located at Sanosware Thasang2 MustangThe aircraft with 22 people including four Indians onboard went missing yesterdayPhoto source Nepal Army pictwittercomW4n5PV3QfAmdash ANI ANI May 30 2022The search and rescue troops have physically located the plane crash site Details will be followed Brig Gen Silwal said on TwitterCrash site Sanosware Thasang2 Mustang he tweeted along with a picture of what appears to be the wreckage of the aircraftThe fate of 22 people including the four members of an Indian family on board the Nepalese airlines plane remained unclear as bad weather made it difficult to locate the aircraft that went missing on Sunday morning in the mountainous region of the Himalayan nation minutes after taking off from the tourist city of PokharaPatrol and search units from security forces and groups of locals continued the onfoot search amid adverse weather conditions in the Dhaulagiri region The Himalayan Times newspaper reportedThe Canadianbuilt plane was flying from the city of Pokhara to Jomsom a popular tourist town in central Nepal Flights between the two cities are usually 2025 minutes longThe condition of the plane belonging to Tara Air that took off at 1015 am from Pokhara nearly 200 kilometers east of Kathmandu is unknown till now the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal CAAN said in a statementThe airline issued the list of passengers which identified four Indians as Ashok Kumar Tripathy his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar Tripathy and their children Dhanush and Ritika The family was based in Thane city near MumbaiNepal home to eight of the worlds 14 highest mountains including Everest has a record of air accidentsIn 2016 all 23 people aboard were killed when a plane of the same airline flying the same route crashed after takeoffIn March 2018 a USBangla Air crash occurred at the Tribhuvan International Airport killing 51 people on boardA Sita Air flight crashed in September 2012 while making an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport killing 19 peopleA plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed near Jomsom airport on May 14 2012 killing 15 peopleTara Air is the newest and biggest airline service provider in the Nepalese mountains according to the airline website It started business in 2009 with the mission of helping develop rural NepalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever