Nepal plane crash live updates : No survivors found

Nepal plane crash live updates : “No survivors” found were killed after a Tara Air plane crashed in Nepal’s mountainous region Mustang on Sunday with 22 people on board.

The flight departed at 9:55 a.m. from the Pokhara tourist attraction and lost contact with air control after 12 minutes at 10:07 am.

A plane carrying 22 people, including four Indians, was missing yesterday.

The wreckage of a missing plane in the Nepalese mountains was found on Monday and all 22 occupants, including four Indians, were pronounced dead after no survivors were found, local media reported.

Aerial photographs of the crash site reached by the AFP news agency showed parts of the plane scattered over rocks and boulders along a mountain gorge.

The airline in question – Tara Air – also had a fatal crash in 2016 on the same route when a 23-year-old plane crashed into a mountain, killing all of them. The Himalayas have very dangerous airports and are prone to air accidents due to bad weather and tropical areas.

The most dangerous plane crash known in Nepal happened 30 years ago when all 167 passengers were killed.

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Here’s what we know about plane crashes, airlines and routes

1. No survivors were killed after a Tara Air plane crashed in the Nepalese mountain region of Mustang on Sunday with 22 people on board.
2. Four Indians – Vaibhavi Tripathi and her ex-husband Ashok Tripathi, and their two children – were also present when the plane went missing. They were ordered by a family court to go on vacation every year after their divorce, officials said. Besides the four Indians, there were two Germans on the plane.
3. Speaking on rescue plans, a spokeswoman for Tara Air Sudarshan Bartaula told local media that the bodies were “scattered about 100 meters from the impact site,” and were “in a state of disrepair”, PTI reported. Explaining the horrific accident, he said the plane crashed into a mountain and broke into pieces, the effect of “exploding corpses all over the hill”.
4. The plane took off at 9:55 a.m. from the Pokhara tourist destination and lost contact with air control after 12 minutes at 10:07 am, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. It was at an altitude of 12,825 feet when it lost signal.
5. Fragments of the plane were found almost 20 hours after the plane went missing, Nepal’s military said on Monday. The plane crashed into a hill about 4,000 feet above sea level, quoted Mustang Netra Netas Prasad Sharma as saying.
6. The Turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET – a model involved in an accident – is a jet plane developed by Canadian aircraft manufacturer De Havilland; has operated in Nepal for nearly 50 years, during which it has been involved in at least 21 accidents, according to activationnepal.com.
7. Meanwhile, the airline in question – Tara Air – is a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines, a privately owned domestic company that provides a wide range of destinations throughout Nepal. It suffered a fatal crash in 2016 on the same route when a 23-year-old plane crashed into a mountain in the Myagdi region.
8. In March 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines plane crashed near Kathmandu International Airport in a tragic accident, skidded off a football field and burst into flames. Fifty-five people were killed and 20 were miraculously saved from the blaze but received serious injuries.
9. The most notorious plane crash in Nepal is said to have occurred in 1992, when all 167 passengers on a Pakistan International Airlines flight were killed when it crashed near Kathmandu airport. Just two months earlier in the same year (August 1992), a Thai Airways plane crashed near the same airport, killing 113 people.
10. The European Union has banned all Nepali flights in its territory due to security concerns. The Himalayas also have some of the world’s longest and most treacherous airlines, surrounded by snowcapped peaks with challenging routes for skilled pilots. The weather can quickly change in the mountains, creating subtle aircraft conditions.
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    We suspected that all passengers on the plane had lost their lives. Our initial assessment shows that no one could have survived the plane crash, but an official statement should be made, ”Interior Ministry spokesman Phadindra Mani Pokhrel was quoted as saying by ANI news agency.

At least 16 bodies have been exhumed from the crash site at 14,500ft in Sano Sware Bhir of Thasang in Mustang district.

The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET operated by Tara Air lost contact within minutes after departing from the tourist town of Pokhara around 10am on Sunday.

The Canadian-built aircraft was flying from the city of Pokhara to Jomsom, a popular tourist town in central Nepal.

The airline has released a list of passengers who identified four Indians as Ashok Kumar Tripathy, his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar (Tripathy) and their children Dhanush and Ritika. The family was based in the town of Thane near Mumbai.

Vaibhavi Tripathi’s sister has asked officials not to inform her mother as her condition is “critical”, the official said.

Nepal’s Interior Ministry has sent two private helicopters from Mustang and Pokhara to search for lost aircraft. Surveillance and search centers from the security forces, as well as local groups, are also on foot in the Dhaulagiri region, reports the Himalayan Times.

Mustang (from the Tibetan Muntan meaning “fertile plain”) is a traditional dry and arid region. The deepest gorge in the world, three miles down the plateau between the Dhaulagiri and Annapurna mountains, cuts across the region.

Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest, has a history of air accidents.

In 2016, all 23 passengers were killed when the same plane that flew in the same direction crashed after takeoff.

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