Nepal Plane goes missing

Tara Air mainly flies Canadian-built Twin Otter turboprop planes. “One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane,” the ...

Seven of the passengers were women, it said. "One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement. - "One search helicopter returned to Jomsom due to bad weather without locating the plane," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement.

Nepal pauses rescue effort for missing passenger flight, citing weather ... Nepal has paused search-and-rescue efforts for a plane carrying 22 people that went ...

Nepali airlines are banned from flying in the airspace of the European Union because of “a lack of safety oversight by the aviation authorities” there. Search and rescue operation is on. The Nepali army spokesperson said around 2 p.m. that military personnel and helicopters were “trying to locate [the] plane,” which was thought to be “in and around Lete,” about 22 miles south of Jomsom.

It has been raining in the area for the past few days but flights have been operating normally. Planes on that route fly between mountains before landing in ...

In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Jumla crashed, killing all 18 on board. In 2012, an Agni Air plane also flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed, killing 15 people. Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesman for Tara Air, said the air search may have to be stopped for the day because of nightfall.

A small passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in cloudy weather in Nepal on Sunday, and authorities suspended a search in difficult terrain ...

"It could be a fire by villagers or by cowherds. It could be anything." The search will resume early tomorrow."

Nepali army finds wreckage of Tara Air plane a day after it went missing with 22 people on board.

In early 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed on landing and caught fire, killing 51 of the 71 people on board Narayan Silwan, a spokesperson for the army, later posted a picture on Twitter of the wreckage with the plane’s tail number visible and parts of the aircraft shown scattered on the edge of a mountain. Rescue workers in Nepal have recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane that went down with 22 people on board.