All 22 people, including four Indians, are feared dead on board the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal’s Mustang district on Sunday. Home Ministry spokesperson Fadindra Mani Pokharel told ANI on Monday, “We suspect that all the passengers on board the plane have lost their lives. Our preliminary assessment showed that no one could have survived the accident, but the official statement remains.”
14 bodies have been recovered from the spot. Nepal Army The wreckage of a two-engined Tara Air passenger plane was found in the country’s Mustang district this morning.
“The search and rescue team has physically located the plane crash site. Details will be followed,” Nepal Army spokesperson Brigadier General Narayan Silwal said on Twitter.
“Crash site: Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang,” he tweeted along with a photo of the plane’s wreckage.
The search operation was resumed this morning after being stopped on Sunday due to bad weather.
Four Indian nationals, two German and 13 Nepalese passengers, besides a three-member Nepalese crew were on board the Tara Air plane. The Canadian-made plane was flying from the city of Pokhara to the popular tourist town of Jomsom in central Nepal.
airline The list of passengers released, in which the four Indians were identified as Ashok Kumar Tripathi, his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar (Tripathi) and their children Dhanush and Ritika. The family was based in Thane city near Mumbai.
In 2016, all 23 people aboard were killed when a plane of the same airline flying the same route crashed after takeoff.
In March 2018, a US-Bangla air crash occurred at Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 51 people.
In September 2012, a Sita Air flight crashed while making an emergency landing at Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 19 people.
A Pokhara to Jomsom plane crashed near Jomsom airport on 14 May 2012, killing 15 people.
According to the airline website, Tara Air is the newest and largest airline service provider in the Nepalese mountains. It started its business in 2009 with a mission to help develop rural Nepal.