“A search team has located the wreckage and has sent photos, and additional teams are heading to the site so we can get details,” said Narayan Silwal, a Nepal Army spokesman.
The “Twin Otter” plane belonging to the airline “Tara Air” took off from Pokhara (central western Nepal) at 09:55 (0410 GMT) on Sunday before losing contact with it.
A spokesman for the company indicated that the crew of the plane consisted of three people, and it was carrying 19 passengers, including two Germans and four Indians.
The flight between Pokhara, the second largest city in Nepal, and Jomsom, known as a departure point for those heading to the Himalayas, takes 20 minutes.
The plane was last spotted in the vicinity of Goripani, a town located at an altitude of about 2,900 metres.
Throughout Sunday, rescue teams conducted combing operations in this mountainous and hard-to-reach area in western Nepal.
The Nepalese air transport sector has achieved a real boom in recent years, especially in the field of transporting tourists, hiking and mountaineering enthusiasts and freight in remote areas.
Nepal is a poor country in the Himalayas and its record in terms of air security is poor, and the European Union has closed its airspace to all Nepalese airlines for safety reasons.
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