Tag: aviation industry

Emergency response workers find bodies of all Nepal plane crash victims

Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP)—Emergency workers have found the bodies of all 23 passengers and crew killed when their plane crashed into a mountainside in western Nepal, the army said Thursday. The police and army returned to the crash site at first light after abandoning recovery efforts late Wednesday due to bad weather in the remote Himalayan district where the Twin Otter turboprop aircraft came down. The site in Myagdi district is around 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) […]

Plane with 21 on board goes missing

Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP)—A passenger plane went missing in a mountainous area of Nepal early Wednesday with 21 people on board, the airline said. Tara Air said rescue helicopters had been deployed to search for the Twin Otter aircraft, which lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara in the morning. “A plane that took off from Pokhara for Jomsom this morning is out of contact,” Tara Air […]