Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation said that the examination was conducted by the AIC with the help of US-based National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) which the report would be sent to International Civil Aviation Organisation and concerned countries for evaluation with a time limit of 60 days based on the ICAO Annex 13 provision.

It stated the final report of the crash examination would be made public in the next 2 months.The report lists several contributing aspects for the crash: the flight crews failure to follow the standard procedure (SOP); flight operation with TAWS inhibited during deteriorating weather condition; crews loss of situational awareness; less skilled co-pilot for that sector; poor CRM (crew resource management); PIC (pilot-in-command) carrying out the whole cockpit duties that hindered his performance; and underutilisation of the offered navigation instruments during the flight.The airplane bring 23 people, including 3 crew members, en path to Jomsom in Mustang had crashed at Tirkhe Dhunga of Dana VDC, Myagdi, killing everybody on board.Apart from one Chinese and one Kuwaiti national, the remaining 21 people on board - including 2 infants - were Nepalis.The plane was flying towards Jomsom - the entrance for trekking to Muktinath and Lo-Manthang.

The crashed aircraft was a Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 owned by Tara Air, a domestic carrier, which offers service in Nepals mountainous area.

The Tara Air airplane had taken off from Pokhara on its arranged flight (TA 193) to Jomsom at 7:50 am.

The airplane headed out of contact 10 minutes after leaving the Pokhara airport.A version of this article appears in the print on February 23, 2023, of The Himalayan Times. The report released by the Accident Investigation Commission formed to look into the accident points at the flight teams failure to maintain and monitor the correct course while unintentionally flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) with the terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) hindered, resulting in a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as the probable cause and contributing factor for the crash. KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 22The final draft report of the Tara Air 9N-AET aircraft that crashed at Tirkhe Dhunga while en route to Jomsom from Pokhara on 29 May 2022 blames mostly the flight crew for the deadly accident. Yeti Air crash: Analysis of data recorder completed Pokhara air crash: DNA tests of six start .

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