Search for ‘missing’ plane continues: CAAN

Kathmandu, May 29 ( RSS): Search has been intensified for a Tara Air’s Twin Otter plane with call sign ‘9 NAET’ that lost contact while en route to Jomsom of Mustang from Pokhara, Kaski late this morning.    

According to the Search and Rescue Coordination Center, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the plane that had left Pokhara for Jomsom at 9:55 am had lost its contact with the Jomsom Tower at 10:07 am from Ghodepani.    

As the Center said, a helicopter of Fishtail Air was sent to the site for the search operation, and the adverse weather aborted the efforts, forcing the chopper to fly back to Jomsom.    

A total of 22 people: 13 Nepali, four Indian and two Germans and three crew members are on board the plane.