All the 22 people including three crew members died when an aircraft of Tara Air crashed at Sanosware in Mustang district of Nepal, police said.

A team of Nepal Army and Nepal police personnel, who reached the incident site, are collecting the bodies.

Local Sumit Gauchan of Thasang Rural Municipality-3, who is at the incident site, said that no one was found alive.

“Twelve bodies have been found so far. Security personnel with the help of locals are searching for others,” he said.

The plane with call sign 9N-AET, which went missing over Mustang sky on Sunday, was found crashed on Monday morning. The wreckage of the aircraft was found scattered at Sanosware in Mustang district this morning.

There were 22 people including two German nationals, four Indians and 13 Nepali nationals on board the ill-fated aircraft when the incident occurred.

The plane had taken off for Jomson from Pokhara at 9: 55 am yesterday.

According to the Civil Aviation Office, Pokhara, the deceased have been identified as Indian nationals Vaibhavi Bandekar, Ashok Kumar Tripathy, Dhanush Tripathy and Ritika Tripathy, Nepali nationals Indra Bahadur Gole, Purushottam Gole, Raj Kumar Gole, Basanta Lama, Ganesh Narayan Shrestha, Rabina Shrestha, Rashmi Shrestha, Rojina Shrestha, Prakash Sunuwar, Makar Bahadur Tamang, Ram Maya Tamang, Suku Maya Tamang and Tulusa Devi Tamang.

The identities of the German nationals, however, are yet to be ascertained.

A team of nine persons, who had gone to pluck yarsagumba, and a team of local youths led by Sumit Gauchan found the aircraft today.