They lose contact with a plane with 22 people on board in Nepal

• Relatives of the passengers of the plane; n  missing. AFP

The Nepalese authorities lost contact this Sunday with a plane in which 22 people were traveling when the device flew over the west of the country, reported An official source told Efe.

The Twin Otter plane belonging to the Nepalese airline Tara Air was flying from the central city of Pokhara to Jomsom airport in the Mustang districtwhen authorities lost contactAround 9:55 a.m. local time (4:10 GMT), Sudarshan Badtaula, spokesman for Yeti Airlines, the parent company of Tara Air, told Efe.

According to the source, they were traveling on plane 9N-AET. Thirteen Nepalese, four Indians, two Germans and three crew members.

An air traffic controller at Jomsom airport, who asked anonymity, he affirmed. told Efe that they are investigating a report about a loud noise in an area called Ghasa, while the authorities have sent a helicopter to the area where the gun was lost. contact.

The most serious plane crash in recent years in Nepal occurred in Nepal. in March 2018, when a Bangladeshi airlines plane crashed. US-Bangla from Dhaka crashed during the landing maneuver at the international airport of Kathmandu; with 67 passengers and four crew members on board.

The incident caused 51 dead and 20 survivors, becoming the worst air accident since 1992 in Nepal.

In July of that year, 113 people died on board an Airbus A310-300 of the Thai company Thai Airways that crashed. He was in the Himalayas when he was landing at the Kathmandu airport.

Just two months later, another plane, this time from the Pakistani airline; Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crashed. in the approach maneuver to the Kathmandu airport, an accident that caused 167 dead, 30 of them Spanish.

Nepal, with frequent air accidents, has been the subject of repeated international sanctions due to the lack of controls.

The Union The European Union (EU) has banned access to its territory to Nepalese airlines since 2013.