According to the police in Nepal, a passenger plane with 22 people on board is missing. The machine disappeared from radar on Sunday morning. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter machine shortly before 10 a.m., police spokesman Bishnu Kumar KC told the German Press Agency.
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. Of the “Kathmandu Post» According to 16 Nepalese citizens, including three crew members, four Indians and two Germans are in the machine.
“We are trying to locate the area where the plane could be,” a Tara Air spokesman told AFP. A spokesman for the Nepalese Ministry of the Interior said two helicopters had been sent to search for the plane. However, the visibility in the area is very poor. “The bad weather will probably hamper the search operation.”
Pokhara is the starting point for numerous trekking tours, including the Annapurna Circuit. The Annapurna massif is a popular hiking region in the Himalayan country.
(SDA/AFP)