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22 perish as plane crashes in Nepal
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December 17, 2010, Friday
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ALL 22 people aboard a small plane were killed when it crashed in Nepal's rugged east, searchers said yesterday, finding the wreckage on a mountainside a day after the plane went missing.
The wreckage was found about 160 kilometers east of the capital Katmandu, the Rescue Coordination Committee at Katmandu Airport said.
It was not yet clear what caused the crash. The plane had been chartered to carry pilgrims to a Hindu temple and was on its way back to the capital.
Debris from the plane was scattered over a 300-meter radius on the side of a mountain, police official Bhesh Bahadur Thapa said from a station near the crash site.
Thapa said rescuers were collecting the bodies to sendback to Katmandu.
The Canadian-built Twin Otter aircraft operated by domestic Tara Air took off on Wednesday from Lamidanda and then disappeared.
The three crew members and 18 passengers were Nepali nationals, while another passenger was an ethnic Tibetan holding a US passport. Other details were not available.
Airport official Dinesh Shrestha said three rescue aircraft scoured the area on Wednesday and yesterday and located the crash site.
The wreckage was found about 160 kilometers east of the capital Katmandu, the Rescue Coordination Committee at Katmandu Airport said.
It was not yet clear what caused the crash. The plane had been chartered to carry pilgrims to a Hindu temple and was on its way back to the capital.
Debris from the plane was scattered over a 300-meter radius on the side of a mountain, police official Bhesh Bahadur Thapa said from a station near the crash site.
Thapa said rescuers were collecting the bodies to sendback to Katmandu.
The Canadian-built Twin Otter aircraft operated by domestic Tara Air took off on Wednesday from Lamidanda and then disappeared.
The three crew members and 18 passengers were Nepali nationals, while another passenger was an ethnic Tibetan holding a US passport. Other details were not available.
Airport official Dinesh Shrestha said three rescue aircraft scoured the area on Wednesday and yesterday and located the crash site.
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