Military airplane crashes in Nepal, six missing: Army

19.10.2011 [11:32]
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Baku, October 19 (AZERTAC). A military aircraft with six people on board crashed on Tuesday into hills in a remote hunting reserve in mid-western Nepal, the army said.

The Britten-Norman Islander airplane was returning to the capital Kathmandu from a rescue mission by the Indian border in the southwest when it lost contact with the ground, army officials told the media.

The whereabouts and condition of the six passengers and crew, all Nepalese, was not yet known, with rescuers racing to reach the site where witnesses reporting hearing an explosion before seeing the plane crash into the side of a hill, engulfed in a fireball.

"The Islander aircraft has crashed in Bovan village, of Baglung district," said army spokesman Kuber Thapa.

"A military search team is heading towards the area based on the information of eyewitnesses. We will be able to give details of casualties only after the rescuers reach the remote, hilly area where the accident occurred.

Military airplane crashes in Nepal, six missing: Army

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