Nepal’s army said on Monday that it had found the crash site of a plane with 22 people on board that went missing on Sunday due to cloudy weather.
“Search, and rescue troops have physically found the plane crash site,” an army spokesperson named Narayan Silwal said on Twitter.
He posted a picture of the wreckage with the plane’s tail number and parts of the plane scattered on the edge of a mountain.
Four Indians, two Germans, and 16 Nepalis were on the plane, a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter. The plane was run by a private company called Tara Air.
Before the plane lost touch with the control tower, it had been in the air for 20 minutes.
It had left the tourist town of Pokhara, which is 125 km (80 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu.
It was going to Jomsom, 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Pokhara and a popular tourist and pilgrimage site.
Flightradar24, a website that keeps track of flights, says that the plane, which has the registration number 9N-AET, flew for the first time in April 1979.
A representative for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), Deo Chandra Lal Karna, said five helicopters were ready to help with the rescue.
Nepal has a history of air accidents, even though it is home to eight of its 14 tallest mountains, including Everest.
This is because the weather can change quickly, and most airstrips are in hard-to-reach mountainous areas.
Early in 2018, a US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed on landing and caught fire, killing 51 of the 71 people on board.
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