A small passenger plane that went missing in bad weather has crashed into a Himalayan mountain killing all 23 people on board, Nepalese authorities confirmed. Air control lost contact with the Twin Otter aircraft operated by the domestic Tara Air shortly after it took off from the resort town of Pokhara, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Kathmandu.
The plane was due to fly a short 18-minute route between mountain peaks to Jomsom, a town located at about 2700m of altitude that serves as springboard for Himalayan trekkers heading for Mount Annapurna and Mustang region.
The airline said the plane was carrying three crew and 20 passengers, one a Chinese and one a Kuwaiti national, revising an earlier figure of 18 passengers.
All the others were from Nepal and two of them were children.
The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
The airline said the plane was carrying three crew and 20 passengers, one a Chinese and one a Kuwaiti national, revising an earlier figure of 18 passengers.
All the others were from Nepal and two of them were children.
The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
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