Tara Air Flight 197

Tara Air Flight 197
Twin engine passenger aircraft on the ground
9N-AET, the aircraft involved in the accident, two months before the crash
Accident
Date29 May 2022 (2022-05-29)
SummaryControlled flight into terrain due to loss of situational awareness
SiteThasang-2, Mustang District, Nepal[1]
28°42′42.8394″N 83°35′31.92″E / 28.711899833°N 83.5922000°E / 28.711899833; 83.5922000 [2]
Aircraft
Aircraft typede Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
OperatorTara Air operated for Yeti Airlines
IATA flight No.TB197
ICAO flight No.TRA197
Call signTARA AIR 197
Registration9N-AET
Flight originPokhara Airport, Nepal
DestinationJomsom Airport, Nepal
Occupants22
Passengers19
Crew3
Fatalities22[3]
Survivors0

Tara Air Flight 197[4] was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Tara Air for parent company Yeti Airlines from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport in Nepal. On 29 May 2022, the Twin Otter aircraft carrying 22 people (19 passengers and 3 crew members) departed at 09:55 NPT (04:10 UTC) and lost contact with air traffic controllers about 12 minutes later at 10:07 (04:22).[5][6][7][2] The wreckage was located 20 hours later on a mountainside. All 22 passengers and crew were killed, and all 22 bodies were recovered.[8] This was Tara Air's second deadly accident on this route, after Flight 193 in 2016.[9]

  1. ^ @ThiraLalBhusal (30 May 2022). "Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal has now confirmed that the #TaraAir twin otter 9N-AET plane that was missing since yesterday evening had crashed at Thasang-2 in Mustang district at the height of 14,500 feet" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b Hradecky, Simon (29 May 2022). "Crash: Tara DHC6 near Jomsom on May 29th 2022, aircraft found collided with mountain". avherald.com. The Aviation Herald. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  3. ^ "Nepal Tara Air Plane Crash LIVE Updates: No survivors found at Tara Air plane crash site". The Times of India. 30 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Twin Otter in Nepal im Himalaya abgestürzt". aeroTELEGRAPH (in Swiss High German). 29 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Search for missing Tara Air plane to resume today after bad weather, poor light affects operations". The Kathmandu Post. 30 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022. The aircraft took off at 9:55am and lost contact with air control about 12 minutes later at 10:07am, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference kp1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Nepal: Plane goes missing with 22 people on board, officials say". Sky News. 29 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Nepal plane crash: Officials recover black box from wreckage". BBC News. 31 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Last body recovered Tara Air plane crash site: Nepal Army". Press Trust of India. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022 – via The Indian Express.