The Nepalese authorities lost this Sunday contact with a plane in which 22 people were traveling when the device was flying over the west of the country, an official source informed ‘Efe’.
The Twin Otter plane belonging to the Nepalese airline Tara Air was flying from the central city of Pokhara to Jomsom airport, in the Mustang district, when the authorities lost contact around 9:55 am local time (around 11:10 pm Colombia time), Sudarshan Badtaula, a spokesman for Yeti Airlines, the parent company of Tara Air, told.
According to the source, the 9N-AET plane was traveling thirteen Nepalis, four Indians, two Germans and three crew members.
An air traffic controller at Jomsom airport, who requested anonymity, said they were investigating a report of a loud noise in an area called Ghasa, while authorities sent a helicopter to the area where contact was lost.
The most serious plane crash in recent years in Nepal occurred in March 2018, when a US-Bangla Bangladeshi airline plane from Dhaka crashed during landing at Kathmandu International Airport with 67 passengers and four crew members on board. The incident caused 51 deaths and twenty survivors, becoming the worst air accident since 1992 in Nepal.
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In July of that year, 113 people died aboard an Airbus A310-300 of the Thai company Thai Airways that crashed in the Himalayas while landing at Kathmandu airport. Just two months later, another plane, this time from the Pakistani airline Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crashed on approach to Kathmandu airport, an accident that caused 167 deaths, 30 of them Spanish.
Nepal, with frequent air accidents, has been the subject of repeated international sanctions for the lack of controls. The European Union (EU) has banned access to its territory to Nepalese airlines since 2013.
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