Missing Flight With 22 Onboard Found In Nepal's Mustang District

Nepal's Tara Air went missing on Sunday!

On Sunday, Nepal's Tara Air went missing. A 43-year-old plane operated by a private airline in Nepal that went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board was found 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 news agency ANI.

The Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to Nepal's Tara Air took off at 9:55 am from Pokhara, and lost contact at 10:07 am, according to an airline spokesperson.

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

Interestingly, the plane was located after Nepal Telecom tracked down the cellphone of the airplane’s Captain Prabhakar Ghimire, through the Global Positioning System (GPS) network.

According to the tweet by the Indian embassy in Nepal wrote, "Tara Air flight 9NAET that took off from Pokhara at 9.55 AM today with 22 people on board, including 4 Indians, has gone missing. A 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.

The aircraft was scheduled to land at Jomsom Airport in the western mountainous region at 10:15 am.

The aircraft lost contact with the tower from the sky above Ghorepani on the Pokhara-Jomsom air route, aviation sources said.