It started its business in 2009 with the mission of helping develop rural Nepal. Tara Air is the newest and biggest airline service provider in the Nepalese mountains, according to the airline website. A plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom crashed near Jomsom airport on May 14, 2012, killing 15 people. A Sita Air flight crashed in September 2012 while making an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 19 people. In March 2018, a US-Bangla Air crash occurred at the Tribhuvan International Airport, killing 51 people on board. In 2016, all 23 people aboard were killed when a plane of the same airline flying the same route crashed after takeoff. Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Everest, has a record of air accidents. The search was suspended on Sunday because of bad weather and failing light. The photo posted on the social media site shows the tail and one wing of the aircraft remain intact. "The impact has blown the bodies all over the hill,” he said. The plane slammed into the mountain breaking into pieces, said Bartaula. Tara Air spokesperson Bartaula said the bodies were scattered over a 100-metre radius from the main impact point. The plane took off at 9:55 am from Pokhara and lost contact with air control about 12 minutes later at 10:07am, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. "Crash site: Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang,” he tweeted along with a picture of the wreckage of the aircraft. Nepal Army Spokesperson Brigadier General Narayan Silwal tweeted in the morning that search and rescue troops physically located the plane crash site. Pieces of the wreckage of the aircraft were found after nearly 20 hours since the plane went missing, the Nepal Army said. The relatives of the Indian victims were waiting in Kathmandu for identification of the bodies. The family was based in Thane city near Mumbai. The airline's passengers list identified four Indians as Ashok Kumar Tripathy, his wife Vaibhavi Bandekar (Tripathy) and their children Dhanush and Ritika. The 9N-AJR Helicopter of Fishtail Air was the first to land at the crash site and confirmed it at 8:10 am today, according to the CAAN. Search and rescue teams from Nepal Army, Air Dynasty, Kailash Helicopter and Fishtail Air Helicopter and other rescue workers were deployed at the crash site. The aircraft could have met with an accident after hitting a cliff nearby. "The dead bodies are intact and the faces of all victims are recognisable." He said there was no fire on the aircraft. "All the passengers on the aircraft are found dead," he was quoted as saying by the paper. He said the plane was found in a completely damaged condition, MyRepublica newspaper reported. Inda Singh, who was on his way to clear a blocked road, found out that the plane had crashed.
Earlier in the afternoon, the CAAN in a statement said that the plane had crashed at Thasang-2 in Mustang district at the height of 14,500 feet. A preliminary investigation revealed that the aircraft had crashed into the mountains after it swerved to the right, instead of turning to the left due to inclement weather, CAAN Director-General Pradeep Adhikari said during a meeting of the International Committee of the Parliament on Monday. The government has formed a five-member commission of inquiry headed by senior aeronautical engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman to find out the cause of the Tara Air plane crash. President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have condoled the death of crew members and passengers in the plane crash.
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