Plane with 18 people missing in Nepal's mountains(BLOG)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QRNGRiAIg_cQRUfSrgNrTujS8axjDTOLUfQmjUt82znVcvQqeaaABgsCCxG5Cqn6uvUQDDF0tfVp3wGgi9vuRj11SDCOaYhGK6Fv6bMSJhd8Xb3p2OyfUUxw9ILp3xfhyphenhyphenwlAh2ED8oM/s1600/ll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QRNGRiAIg_cQRUfSrgNrTujS8axjDTOLUfQmjUt82znVcvQqeaaABgsCCxG5Cqn6uvUQDDF0tfVp3wGgi9vuRj11SDCOaYhGK6Fv6bMSJhd8Xb3p2OyfUUxw9ILp3xfhyphenhyphenwlAh2ED8oM/s1600/ll.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11459" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepal Airlines plane flying in bad weather with 18 people on board was missing Sunday and feared to have crashed in Nepal's mountainous west, officials said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11482" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Contact was lost with the plane a few minutes after it made an unscheduled fuel stop in the city of Pokhara on its flight from the capital, Katmandu, to the town of Jumla, said Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal official Ram Hari Sharma.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11492" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Another aviation official, Dharmendra Pandey, said villagers in Argakhachi district reported that the plane had crashed in a remote mountainous area. He said police were trying to reach the area.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11502" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The de Havilland Canada-manufactured Twin Otter plane had 15 passengers and three crew members on board. One of the passengers was believed to be a Danish national, while the rest on board, including a child, were Nepalese, Sharma said.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11512" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">It was snowing this weekend in parts of the mountainous region, and visibility was low due to fog.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11522" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">A rescue helicopter was trying to reach the area where contact with the plane was lost, but the weather conditions were making it difficult.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The plane was scheduled to fly directly from Katmandu to Jumla, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) to the west, but stopped to refuel at Pokhara's airport about a third of the way into the journey.</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1392529577478_11567" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.000001907348633px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">In May, another plane of the same make and model operated by state-owned Nepal Airlines crashed while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal, injuring all 21 people on board.</div>

Plane with 18 people missing in Nepal's mountains(BLOG)

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepal Airlines plane flying in bad weather with 18 people on board was missing Sunday and feared to have crashed in...

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