- Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Home Minister directs to intensify search for ‘missing’ plane
Kathmandu, May 29 (RSS): Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has instructed for leaving no stone unturned to find out the status of a Tara Aeroplane that had lost contact while it was en route to Jomsom, Mustang from Pokhara of Kaski late this morning.
The Home Minister telephoned Kaski
Chief District Officer (CDO) Jay Narayan Acharya, Gandaki Province Police
Chief, Deputy Inspector General Diwesh Lohani and Mustang CDO Netra Prasad
Sharma and directed them to intensify the search operations for the aircraft.
The plane that took off from
Pokhara at 9: 55 am for Jomsom was in contact with the traffic controller and
it was flying above Lete of Mustang when it had its last contact with the
aviation system and team, said the Kaski CDO. According to the aviation
technical force, the aircraft was last tracked taking a turn toward the
Dhaulagiri Peak.
Mustang CDO Sharma said that
following the instruction from the Home Minister, security officials of five
districts adjoining the Dhaulagiri Peak have been urged to stay alert.
As he said, a helicopter of
Fishtail Air has already flown towards Mustang to search for the aircraft.
Similarly, until the filing of this report,
preparations are going on to send a Nepal Army helicopter from Kathmandu to
Mustang for the search operation.
It is said that 22 people: 13
Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans, and three crew members are on board the
plane.
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