A passenger plane with 22 people on board is missing, according to the police in Nepal. Air traffic control lost contact with the machine around 10 a.m. this morning, police spokesman Bishnu Kumar KC told dpa. The plane of the Nepalese airline Tara Air was with 19 passengers and three crew members on the way from Pokhara – a popular tourist destination around 200 kilometers west of Kathmandu – to Jomsom.
“There are four Indians, two Germans and 16 Nepalese nationals on the plane,” said the police spokesman. The Foreign Ministry in Berlin said today that the German embassy in Kathmandu is working hard to clarify the matter and is in contact with the Nepalese authorities.
According to military information, the search for the machine was interrupted for the night. The reason was bad weather and darkness, said the spokesman for the Nepalese military, Narayan Silwal, on Twitter today. “The search will resume tomorrow morning, both from the air and from the ground.”