The government has formed a five-member commission to probe the Tara Air plane crash at Sanosware in Mustang district of Nepal that claimed the lives of 22 people including three crew members.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation on Monday formed the Commission under the headship of senior Aeronautical Engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman.
Captain Dipu Jwarchan, Senior Maintenance Engineer Upendra Lal Shrestha, Senior Meteorologist Mani Ratna Shakya and Joint Secretary at the Ministry Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane are the other members of the commission.
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.
