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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -A small passenger plane operated by a private airline went missing in mountainous Nepal on Sunday with 22 people on board during cloudy weather, and officials said search teams had been sent to the site of a fire spotted by local residents. State-owned Nepal Television said villagers had seen an aircraft on fire at the source of the Lyanku Khola River at the foot of the Himalayan mountain Manapathi, in a district bordering Tibet. The plane took off in the morning for a 20-minute flight but lost contact with the control tower five minutes before it was due t…