A passenger plane that went missing in Nepal was on Thursday found crashed in a mountainous area near the capital killing all 22 people on board, including foreigners.

Rescuers found the wreckage of the Canadian-built Twin Otter aircraft belonging to Tara Airlines, a private company this morning, a day after the plane lost contact with the control tower of the airport at Lamidanda in Khotang district of eastern Nepal minutes after it took off from there.