Barely fifteen minutes after the aircraft took off, the Twin Otter disappeared from the radar. Two helicopters are being searched, the Ministry of the Interior said. There were four Indians, two Germans and 13 Nepalese passengers on board the aircraft. There was a crew of three Nepalese pilots on board.
Nepali media report that a loud noise was heard near Jomsom. It leads to speculation that the device crashed in the area. On the same route, a Tara Air plane crashed into a mountain in February 2016, killing 23 people on board.
