Rescuers in western Nepal have found the wreckage of
a passenger plane which crashed killing all 23 people on board.
The Twin Otter aircraft, operated by Tara Air, was
travelling from Pokhara to Jomsom and lost contact with the control tower
shortly after taking off.
Most of those on board were Nepalis. It is not clear
what caused the crash.
The plane was carrying three crew and 20 passengers,
one of them Chinese and one Kuwaiti. Nepal's aviation industry has a poor
safety record.
According to Sanjiv Gautam, director general of the
Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, the plane's wreckage was found near the
village of Dana in Myagdi district.
Earlier he told the BBC Nepali Service the aircraft
lost contact with the control tower at Pokhara 10 minutes after take-off.
The identities of those on board have yet to be
released. Two of those on board were children.
Three helicopters were sent to search for the
missing plane, Tara Air said on its website, adding that "the weather at
both origin and destination airports was favourable" for the 20-minute
flight.
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