Thursday, August 02, 2012

Bad weather hampers search for missing Nepali plane

New Delhi, Aug. 2: The aerial search for the Royal Napalese Airlines Dakota, reported missing since yesterday afternoon, while on a scheduled flight from Kathmandu to Delhi, was called off late this evening and is to be resumed tomorrow when IAF planes will fly over the sector in which the plane was reported to have been lost, according to official sources.

The plane had on board six passengers, including the Nepalese Ambassador to India, Mr Narpratap Thapa and a crew of four. It was due to land at Safdarjang Airport here at 3.30 pm yesterday, but lost contact with the Delhi area control at about 1 pm. Intense aerial and land search for the missing plane began at dawn today and continued till late this evening, had proved fruitless.


http://www.deccanchronicle.com

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