# Tara Air Flight 197

_Aviation accident in 2022_

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Last updated: 2026-10-21

> Tara Air Flight 197 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Tara Air for parent company Yeti Airlines from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport in Nepal. On 29 May 2022, the De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft carrying 22 people departed at 09:55 NPT and lost contact with air traffic controllers about 12 minutes later at 10:07 (04:22). The wreckage was located 20 hours later on a mountainside. All 22 passengers and crew were killed, and all 22 bodies were recovered. This was Tara Air's second deadly accident on this route, after Flight 193 in 2016.

## Quick facts

- **Type:** aviation accident ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112163545#P31))
- **Coordinates:** 28.7119, 83.5922

## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Tara Air Flight 197](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Air_Flight_197) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q112163545](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112163545) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- [Image: 9N-AET Tara Air DHC-6 20220405.jpg by Ralf1963 (CC BY-SA 4.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9N-AET_Tara_Air_DHC-6_20220405.jpg)

## Licence and attribution

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"Tara Air Flight 197". DigiNepal. Last updated 21 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/tara-air-flight-197. Retrieved 21 October 2026.