In this photo taken on June 1, 2010, a Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft is seen at the Lamidanda airstrip, some 120 kms east of Kathmandu. A small passenger plane operated by Tara Air carrying 22 people has gone missing after taking off from an airport in eastern Nepal, the civil aviation authority said. -- PHOTO: AFP
KATHMANDU - ALL 22 passengers and crew on board a small passenger plane that crashed in mountainous eastern Nepal were killed, police said on Thursday, after a rescue team reached the site.
'We have recovered 20 bodies. We are still searching for the other two, but we can be sure there are no survivors,' police spokesman Bigyan Raj Sharma told AFP following the crash on Wednesday afternoon.
'The aircraft has broken up completely and is scattered over 200m of dense forest.' -- AFP
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