Yeti Airlines Twin Otter crashed on Wednesday morning while trying to land at Jumla airport after a flight from Nepalganj via Surkhet, killing all three crew members and six passengers on board, airline sources said.
The pilot was identified as Captain Kiran Malla, co-pilot Dipak Pokhrel and flight attendant Dipak Sherchan.
The deceased passengers have been identified as Bishnu Kumar Thapa, Jagdish Neupane, Kali Bahadur Shahi, Karma Raj Malla, Mahesh Khatri and Singh Thapa.
The plane, with serial number 9N-AEQ aborted landing on runway 09 and was going around when the pilot appeared to lose control and the plane slammed into a mountainside on the eastern edge of the airfield.
Jumla is situated at 9,400 ft and has tricky wind conditions after mid-morning.
This is the second major crash in Jumla in recent years. A Necon Air Cessna Caravan crashed on takeoff there in 2001 killing all six on board.
A team of police and officials of the civil aviation authority of Nepal had already left for the incident .
The pilot was identified as Captain Kiran Malla, co-pilot Dipak Pokhrel and flight attendant Dipak Sherchan.
The deceased passengers have been identified as Bishnu Kumar Thapa, Jagdish Neupane, Kali Bahadur Shahi, Karma Raj Malla, Mahesh Khatri and Singh Thapa.
The plane, with serial number 9N-AEQ aborted landing on runway 09 and was going around when the pilot appeared to lose control and the plane slammed into a mountainside on the eastern edge of the airfield.
Jumla is situated at 9,400 ft and has tricky wind conditions after mid-morning.
This is the second major crash in Jumla in recent years. A Necon Air Cessna Caravan crashed on takeoff there in 2001 killing all six on board.
A team of police and officials of the civil aviation authority of Nepal had already left for the incident .
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