![]() stating that Senior Aeronautical Engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman would lead the team.Ī preliminary investigation made by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has showed that the crash might have occurred due to the bad weather conditions.ĬAAN Director General Pradeep Adhikari told a meeting of the International Committee of the Parliament on Monday that the Tara Air plane met with the accident because of inclement weather. ![]() Soon after the incident, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of the Himalayan Nation issued a press statement on Monday regarding the formation of a five-member panel to probe into the tragic crash. A total of 22 passengers, including four Indians, two Germans and three crew members, were on board the plane. The twin-otter aircraft, which took off from Pokhara for Jomsom in Mustang at 9:55 am (NST) on Sunday, lost contact shortly after takeoff and was later found at Sansure Cliff of Thasang Rural Municipality-2 in Mustang on Monday morning. Remaining bodies will be flown back to capital, informed the officials. Out of 21 recovered bodies- 10 have been carried back to Kathmandu for postmortem. Despite that, they are doing their very best to retrieve the dead bodies and ferry it to base station and back to Kathmandu," an airport official added. The constant rain and clouds has created difficulties for the rescuers. "The site of accident is located at 14,500 feet, making the terrain extremely sloppy. Search operation for the missing body is continuing in the Himalayas which as per the officials is engulfed by thick blanket of fog reducing the visibility. Operated by Tara Air- a domestic air service provider, the turboprop aircraft en route to Jomsom from Pokhara crashed at an elevation of 14, 500 feets at the base of Manapathi peak in Mustang District on Sunday. Three helicopters are also stationed which has been engaged in retrieving the bodies located by the rescuers from accident site to nearby base station," he added further. "Because of bad weather conditions rescue operation was very difficult even with 50-60 rescuers deployed. 10 bodies are carried back to the base station with the help of Mi-17 helicopter in Khabang," said Teknath Situala, the Spokesperson at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu who has been overseeing the rescue and search operation told ANI. "Till now we have recovered 21 dead bodies. The Twin Otter, a rugged plane originally built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer De Havilland, has been in service in Nepal for about 50 years, during which it has been involved in about 21 accidents, according to of 21 recovered dead bodies, Nepali Army took 10 bodies to the base station on Monday evening after a commercial passenger plane crashed onto the hills killing all 22 onboard.Īs per the officials, only the bodies of 21 passengers out of 22 onboard were located at the crashed site. ![]() Magar said it appeared the plane may have clipped the top of a smaller mountain and then slammed into a bigger mountain. The Setopati news website quoted a villager, Bishal Magar, as saying that they heard about the missing plane on Sunday but were only able to reach the site on Monday morning after following the smell of fuel. The wreckage was located by villagers who had been searching in the area for the Yarsagumba fungus, which is commonly referred to as Himalayan Viagra, according to local news reports. The plane's destination is popular with foreign hikers who trek on its mountain trails and with Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who visit the revered Muktinath temple. and transmitted its last signal at 10:07 a.m. The army said the plane crashed in Sanosware in Mustang district close to the mountain town of Jomsom, where it was heading after taking off from the resort town of Pokhara, 125 miles west of Kathmandu.Īccording to tracking data from, the 43-year-old aircraft took off from Pokhara at 9:55 a.m.
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