A passenger plane carrying 22 people has crashed into the mountains minutes after taking off with search teams being sent to the site of the fire.
The small aircraft operated by a private airline was carrying 19 passengers and three crew members and disappeared in cloudy weather on Sunday morning, as it flew over a remote mountain range in Nepal.
Rescue workers say they have recovered the bodies of 20 of the 22 passengers, an aviation official in Kathmandu said today.
