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"Twin Otter" Tara Air plane missing in Nepal, with 22 persons onboard

Katmandu, Nepal - It was operating on a domestic route to Katmandu

A small passenger plane carrying 22 people went missing shortly after taking off from an airport in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, the civil aviation authority said. Air traffic control said they lost contact with the pilot around 10 minutes after the "Twin Otter" plane took off from Lamidanda, a small airstrip in the mountainous east of the country, bound for the capital Kathmandu. "We have alerted...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1123864
Rome, Italy, 12/15/2010 18:43
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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