The plane with 22 other people on board, four more Indians, that crashed today in Nepal was found thanks to the GPS position of the pilot’s phone, local media reported to airport authorities.
The plane flew through Captain Prabhakar Ghimire.
“Captain Ghimire’s cell phone rang from the missing plane and the Nepal Army helicopter landed in the imaginable domain of the crash after following the phone of nepal Telecom captain,” Prem Nath Thakur, general manager of Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, said through Nepal data. My Republic portal.
The aircraft disappeared this morning in a mountainous domain shortly after taking off from the resort town of Pokhara towards Jomsom, authorities said.
Nepali airline Tara Air’s Twin Otter 9N-AET plane lost contact with the tower 15 minutes after takeoff, an airline spokesman said.
The passengers come with 4 Indian nationals, two Germans, thirteen Nepalese passengers and a nepali crew of three, airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said. The 4 Indians were known as Ashok Kumar Tripathi, Dhanush Tripathi, Ritika Tripathi and Vaibhawi Tripathi.
“Tara Air flight 9NAET which took off from Pokhara at 9:55 a. m. m. with 22 other people on board, plus four Indians, disappeared. The search and rescue operation is ongoing. The embassy is in contact with their families. Our emergency number: 977 -9851107021,” tweeted the Indian embassy in Nepal.
Lost contact with the tower over Ghorepani on the Pokhara-Jomsom air route, air assets said.
A Nepalese army helicopter with 10 infantrymen and two civil aviation authority workers landed on a riverbank near Narshang Monastery, the imaginable site of the crash, Thakur quoted MyRepublica as saying. “We also sent the army and police on foot for the search,” he added.
Myagdi district leader Chiranjibi Rana told the Kathmandu Post that bad weather hampered rescue efforts. “A police team was mobilized at the site. There are no human settlements in the domain where citizens last saw the plane. Helicopter will begin flight operations,” Mr. Rana said.
A helicopter that left Pokhara in search of the missing plane the day before returned unsuccessfully due to the weather. Interior Minister Bal Krishna Khand ordered the government to step up search operations.
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