Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 29: A 43-year-old jet operated by a private airline in Nepal that went missing with 22 passengers on board on Sunday has been located in Mustang’s Kowang.
According to an airline representative, the Tara Air Twin Otter 9N-AET plane took off from Pokhara at 9:55 a.m. and lost communication at 10:07 a.m.
“According to the information given by the locals to the Nepal Army, the Tara Air plane crashed at the mouth of the Lamche river under the landslide of Manapathi Himal. Nepal Army is moving towards the site from the ground and air route,” Nepal Army spokesperson Narayan Silwal was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Surprisingly, the jet was found after Nepal Telecom used the Global Positioning System (GPS) network to trace down the plane’s Captain Prabhakar Ghimire’s cellphone.
