The black box of the crashed Tara Air plane has been recovered on Tuesday. 

The plane with call sign 9N-AET, which had gone missing since 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 on Sunday.

It has been learnt that the aircraft was scheduled to fly at 6: 15 am but got delayed due to bad weather.

This is the seventh crash in the Pokhara-Jomsom route in the last three decades.

Black box is a small machine that records information about an aircraft during its flight, used to discover the cause of an accident.