The Nepali Army has found the wreckage of a Tara Air plane scattered on a mountainside in Nepal after it went missing over the Himalayan mountains yesterday morning. On board the plane were four Indian nationals, two Germans, 13 Nepali passengers and three Nepali crew members. The army hasn’t yet reported whether they have found any survivors.
The 43 year old turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET aircraft left Pokhara – 200 kilometres west of Kathmandu – at 9:55am local time for a 20 minute flight to the mountain town of Jomsom. The plane lost its signal at 10:07am, eight minutes before it was scheduled to land.
The Nepali army found the crash site in Kowang village, Mustang district at around 7am this morning and posted an aerial photo of the aircraft parts scattered on a mountainside on Twitter.
“Some of the bodies of the passengers are beyond recognition,” said Nepali police…
