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A small passenger plane carrying 22 people including one American went missing shortly after taking off from an airport in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, the airline and the civil aviation authority said. Air traffic control said they lost contact with the pilot around 10 minutes after the Twin Otter plane took off from Lamidanda, a small airstrip around 140 kilometres (90 miles) east of the capital Kathmandu. A passenger plane has gone missing in eastern Nepal. We have alerted the emergency services and a search and rescue effort is under way, Ram Prasad Neupane, head of the civil aviation authority. Two helicopters flew to the remote area to try to locate the plane, which belongs to a small domestic airline, Tara Air, but the search operation had to be called off when night fell.
