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A passenger plane carrying 22 people has vanished minutes after taking off as the fate of those onboard remains unknown. The small aircraft is carrying 19 passengers and three crew members and disappeared on Sunday morning as it flew over a remote mountain range in Nepal. Nepalese airline Tara Air said the DHC 6-300, registered 9N-AET lost contact at 10.07am local time and a helicopter has been dispatched to the area where the last contact was made, reports the Kathmandu Post.

Reported and worked on these kinds of injury disasters in the past. walk us through what we're seeing right now. >> i think you're right. i have been on scene on these kinds of disasters. they're very rare. the turbo fan engine is extraordinarily reliable. but in this case it looks like it came apart midair, what's called an uncontained failure. pieces of the internal engine exited the cowling of the engine, and it looks like it penetrated into the fuselage and that window blew out. that would explain why the oxygen masks dropped immediately. it had to be a harrowing experience inside the plan...

Down. you could have an engine malfunction. you could even have an engine do what is called an uncontained failure. but that would really have to be very catastrophic to bring the airplane down. the fact that you didn't have any transponder emissions, transmissions, anything from a system that is called acars which transfers to airplane back to the airline, you didn't have any of that such as you did with air france 447 back in 2009. this just -- smells to me like a criminal act. >> gentlemen, thank you both. >> thank you. well, we heard reports last week that the white house has gone ahead ...