The airline said the plane was carrying three crew and 20 passengers, one a Chinese and one a Kuwaiti national.
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The Nepali Times said that investigators would examine if there is a link between the crash and an avalanche of rocks that created a dust cloud near the crash site.
Though the authorities have not conformed officially, all the 23 people including three crew members and two infants have died in the fatal crash. He said there were no landing strips between the two airports the plane was flying between and it is believed to have crashed.
Tara Air is a subsidiary of Yeti Airlines, a privately-owned domestic carrier founded in 1998 which services many remote destinations across Nepal.
In a statement, Tara Air said: “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the deceased”, who it said it was working to assist.
Rai said the weather was clear when the plane took off Wednesday morning.
Jomsom too is the starting point for many trekkers in the Himalayas. And the Twin Otter aircraft was new, imported from Canada last September.
(CNN) – All are feared dead after a Tara Air plane carrying 23 people – two of them babies – crashed Wednesday morning in mountainous northern Nepal midway through what should have been a 19-minute flight, officials said. The region where the plane crashed is a notoriously windy, cold and, like much of Nepal, mountainous. A similar aircraft crashed in west Nepal in 2014, killing 18 people. The pilot of the missing plane has been identified as Manandhar and the co-pilot is D. Namkul.
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Aviation in Nepal has had a turbulent history, with more than 70 different crashes involving planes and helicopters being reported since the first aircraft landed in Nepal in 1949.
