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 - A SMALL plane with 22 people on board crashed in the foothills of the Himalayas in eastern Nepal, and officials said on Thursday there was little hope of finding any survivors.
The Twin Otter aircraft, operated by Tara Air, left Lamidanda on Wednesday, heading for the capital Kathmandu, when it lost contact with flight controllers shortly after taking off from the mountainous airstrip.
'Search helicopter pilots have spotted the site where it crashed,' senior district official Debasish Sapkota told Reuters from Okhaldhunga, the nearest town to the airstrip. 'I can't say if there are any survivors.' -- REUTERS
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