Pilot's Mobile Kept Ringing: How Nepal Army Located Site Of Plane Crash
NDTV
The plane went missing this morning in a mountainous region minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara
The plane with 22 people on board - four of them Indians - that crashed in Nepal today was tracked down using the GPS location of the pilot's phone, according to local media reports quoting airport authorities.
The plane was being flown by Captain Prabhakar Ghimire.
"The cell phone of Captain Ghimire of the missing aircraft has been ringing and Nepal Army's helicopter has landed in the possible accident area after tracking the captain's phone from Nepal Telecom," Prem Nath Thakur, general manager of Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, was quoted as saying by Nepal's MyRepublica news portal.
The plane went missing this morning in a mountainous region soon after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara for Jomsom, officials said.
