Three crew members and nineteen passengers are on board the aircraft that has disappeared above a mountainous area.
Le Monde with ap and AFP
A twin-engine twenty-two people-three crew members and nineteen passengers-was missing over a mountainous area of Nepal, announced, Sunday, May 29, the airline Tara Air.
“The contact was lost with a domestic flight which was to link Jomsom from Pokhara,” said France-Presse, Sudarshan Bartaula, company spokesperson, located in Katmandu. The duration of this flight is usually about fifteen minutes, specifies the American news agency Associated Press (AP), but the control tower lost contact with the device shortly after takeoff.
Phanandra Mani Pokharel, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, said that two helicopters had been dispatched to research operations. “Bad weather could slow research operations. Visibility is so weak that nothing can be seen,” he said.
If he has rained in the region in recent days, thefts have continued to carry out the links normally, continues AP, specifying that the planes which transport the travelers between the two cities fly between mountains before landing in a valley.
According to AP, this line is popular with foreign hikers, but also Indian and Nepalese pilgrims who go to Jomsom to go to the temples of Muktinath.