Nepal: Wreckage of Missing Plane Found
Written by RadioVuna on May 30, 2022
According to the army, Nepali rescuers located the crash site of a missing passenger jet on Monday, which had 22 passengers aboard.
“There has been a discovery of the plane’s wreckage and a photograph has been released. In order to gather further information, other teams are now on route to the site,” Spokesman for the Nepalese Army Narayan Silwal stated this.
Silwal sent a photo on Twitter showing the slope littered with the wreckage of the plane. What looked to be a wing section with the registration number 9N-AET plainly visible.
Rescuers had taken a break after dark on Sunday and had just now begun their search.
The plane, operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air, had 19 passengers and three staff members on board, according to airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula. Two Germans and four Indians made up the majority of the travelers, with the rest Nepali.
As early as Monday morning, Pokhara Airport spokesperson, Dev Raj Subedi, told AFP that rescue helicopters and army forces on the ground had relocated their search to a suspected crash location before the debris was ever discovered.
“Now that the hunt has been re-started, The weather hasn’t changed all that much in the last several days. It seems that two helicopters have attempted to land in the region, but neither has been successful “he informed me.
According to Subedi, they used GPS, cell phone, and satellite signals to get to the area.
At 9:55 a.m. on Sunday, the aircraft from the western town of Pokhara to Jomsom had taken off, but air traffic control lost touch after 15 minutes.
Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, is around 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of Jomsom, a famous Himalayan trekking destination.
Tara Air is a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines, a privately owned local airline that flies to a number of remote locations across Nepal’s interior.
In 2016, on the same route, an aircraft carrying 23 people crashed into a mountaintop in Myagdi region, killing everyone aboard.
Foreign trekkers and climbers, as well as commodities and people from remote places, have been flying into Nepal in recent years. Due to a lack of proper training and upkeep, however, it has long been plagued by weak safety measures.
Nepali airlines have been barred from European airspace due to safety concerns.
Aside from the world’s most remote and challenging runway locations, Nepal also offers some of the world’s most challenging approaches even for the most experienced pilots.
This may lead to dangerous flying circumstances, since the weather can change fast in the highlands.
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