Nepal's armed forces said today that they have located the crash site of an aircraft with 22 people on board, including two German citizens, which disappeared from radar and had been missing since yesterday, Sunday.
"Search and rescue teams () have located the crash site of the aircraft," army spokesman Narayan Silual said on Twitter, uploading a photo in which the number on the tail of the twin-engine Tara Air aircraft is discernible.
Aircraft with 22 people on board goes missing in Nepal. Investigations underway
The small aircraft was on a flight from the tourist town of Pokhara about 200 km northwest of the capital to Jomsom.
"The passenger aircraft belonging to Tara Air is missing," Shiva Prasad Rijal, a senior authority official in Pokhara, capital of Ghadaki province, told Xinhua news agency. "It was carrying 19 passengers and three crew members."
The aircraft took off from Pokhara airport at 9.55am local time and was expected in Jomsom at 10.20am. However, minutes after takeoff, air traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft, he said.
An airline official told Reuters that the aircraft was carrying four Indians and two other foreign nationals, whose nationalities are not yet known.
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