| Status: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
| Date: | Sunday 29 May 2022 |
| Time: | ca 10:10 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Tara Air |
| Registration: | 9N-AET |
| MSN: | 619 |
| First flight: | 1979-04-21 (43 years 2 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 22 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Sanosware ( Nepal)
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| Crash site elevation: | 4420 m (14501 feet) amsl |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Pokhara Airport (PKR/VNPK), Nepal |
| Jomsom Airport (JMO/VNJS), Nepal | |
| Flightnumber: | 197 |
Tara Air flight 197, a DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, impacted a mountainside at 14500 feet while on a domestic flight from Pokhara to Jomsom, Nepal. All 22 occupants suffered fatal injuries.
The flight was the first of five daily Tara Air flights from Pokhara to Jomsom, scheduled to depart at 06:15 hours. The flight was delayed because the Lete Pass on the route was covered up with clouds. The Twin Otter finally departed at 09:55, after two aircraft of Summit Air had departed for Jomsom. The flight took off from runway 04 and made a left-hand turn to follow the valley/pass on a heading of about 300°. About 10:06 the flight turned to the north towards Jomsom until it struck the side of a mountain.
Classification:
Sources:
» kathmandupost.comPhotos
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Video, social media
Crash site: Sanosware, Thasang-2, Mustang pic.twitter.com/OcN93N1Qyb
— NASpokesperson (@NaSpokesperson) May 30, 2022
Aircraft history
| date | registration | operator | remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 April 1979 | A2-ABL | de Havilland Canada | first flight |
| 13 May 1979 | A2-ABL | Air Botswana | delivered |
| December 1983 | 7P-LAG | Lesotho Airways | |
| 3 April 1984 | 7P-LAG | Lesotho Airways | struck tree on approach to Quthing (UTG) |
| 19 September 1985 | ET-AIW | RRC Air Services | |
| 18 November 1997 | ET-AIW | Jetstream Aircraft Sales | |
| 16 December 1997 | C-GBQA | Borek & Binder Aero Leasing | registered |
| 24 July 1998 | 9N-AET | Lumbini Airways | |
| 1999 | 9N-AET | Yeti Airways | |
| April 2010 | 9N-AET | Tara Air |
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport as the crow flies is 69 km (43 miles).
Distance from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport as the crow flies is 69 km (43 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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