A NEPALESE airlines plane with 22 people on board, including four members of an Indian family, went missing in the mountainous region of the country on Sunday morning, a few minutes after it took off from Pokhara, around 200 km east of Kathmandu.
The fate of the passengers remained unclear as search and rescue operations had to be called off in the evening due to heavy snowfall and bad weather.
The 43-year-old Twin Otter (DHC 6/300) aircraft, operated by Nepal's Tara Air, was headed for Jomsom, a popular tourist location, when it went missing.
The condition of the plane that took off at 10:15am from Pokhara is unknown till now, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a statement.
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