вЂњThere are no human settlements in the area where locals last spotted the plane.вЂќ вЂњAs soon as the weather improves, the helicopter will begin aerial operations,вЂќ said Rana.ДЄ helicopter that flew from Pokhara in search of the missing aircraft earlier in the day returned without any success due to bad weather. The site is a 12-hour walk from Lete,вЂќ he said. вЂњA team of police has been mobilised at the site. вЂњWe have also sent Nepal Army and Nepal Police personnel on foot for the search,вЂќ he added.Д¬hief District Officer of Myagdi Chiranjibi Rana told The Kathmandu Post newspaper that bad weather has hampered the search efforts at the site where the plane was last spotted by the locals.ДЄccording to him, locals reported that the plane made two circles at Khaibang and headed to Kiti Danda near Lete Pass (2,500m). вЂњThe cell phone of Captain Ghimire of the missing aircraft has been ringing and Nepal ArmyвЂ™s helicopter has landed in the possible accident area after tracking the captainвЂ™s phone from Nepal Telecom,вЂќ Thakur said. Interestingly, the airplane was located after Nepal Telecom tracked down the cellphone of the airplaneвЂ™s pilot Captain Prabhakar Ghimire through the Global Positioning System (GPS) network. Meanwhile, a Nepal Army helicopter carrying 10 soldiers and two employees of the civil aviation authority landed on the bank of a river near the Narshang Monastery, the possible site of the crash, Prem Nath Thakur, general manager of the Tribhuvan International Airport, was quoted as saying by the newspaper. It is suspected that the aircraft crashed in the Dhaulagiri area, the paper quoted DSP Ram Kumar Dani of Mustang as saying. The aircraft lost contact with the tower from the sky above Ghorepani on the Pokhara-Jomsom air route, aviation sources said.ДЄccording to an air traffic controller at Jomsom Airport, they have an unconfirmed report about a loud noise in Ghasa of Jomsom. The aircraft was scheduled to land at Jomsom Airport in the Western mountainous region at 10:15 am. Utsav Pokhrel is the co-pilot while Kismi Thapa is the air hostess, My Republica newspaper reported, quoting Pokhara Airport Information Officer Dev Raj Adhikari. The three member crew of the aircraft was led by captain Prabhakar Prasad Ghimire. Our emergency hotline number :+977-9851107021,вЂќ the Indian embassy in Nepal tweeted.

The embassy is in touch with their family. вЂњTara Air flight 9NAET that took off from Pokhara at 9.55 AM today with 22 people onboard, including 4 Indians, has gone missing. The airline issued the list of passengers which identified four Indians as Ashok Kumar Tripathi, Dhanush Tripathi, Ritika Tripathi, and Vaibhawi Tripathi. There are four Indian nationals, two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers besides a three member Nepali crew, said Sudarshan Bartaula, a spokesperson at the airlines. The Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to NepalвЂ™s Tara Air took off at 10:15 am from Pokhara, and lost contact with the control tower 15 minutes later, according to an airline spokesperson. Four members of a family from Mumbai are among 22 people on board a small plane of a local airlines that went missing on Sunday in the mountainous region of the Himalayan nation minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, officials said.

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