The Latest Breaking News from Nepal

Rescue efforts were hindered by poor weather conditions on Sunday, as the search for 19 passengers and three crew members on board the Tara Air flight in Nepal continues

Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a remote region, an airport official said on Monday.

In an era when flying is becoming ever safer, crashes in the mountainous kingdom continue to haunt the headlines

The aircraft crashed on Sunday in the mountainous region of Nepal minutes after taking off from Pokhara

Pokhara (Nepal) (AFP) - Nepali rescuers scoured a remote area of the lower Himalayas by helicopter and on foot Sunday after a passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing.

Ukraine’s Antonina Samoilova unfurled her country’s flag on Mount Everest earlier this month as Nepal opened its mountains to foreign climbers and set up a new airport to boost its lifeline tourism business which went into deep freeze during the pandemic.

The plane lost contact with the control tower five minutes before it was due to land at Jomsom after taking off from the tourist town of Pokhara, 125 kilometres west of the capital, Kathmandu.

The small aircraft is carrying 19 passengers and three crew members disappeared on Sunday morning as it flew over a remote mountain range in Nepal.

The small plane was flying on a popular tourist route