Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 11: A helicopter crash occurred near Mount Everest in Nepal at Lamjura on Tuesday. Six individuals were onboard the helicopter, with five of them being Mexican nationals.
The helicopter left Surke in the Solukhunvhu area, home to Mount Everest and other high mountain peaks, and lost touch 15 minutes into the trip.
When the private commercial helicopter lost touch with the control tower at 10:15 am, it was returning to Kathmandu with foreign visitors on a sightseeing tour to Mount Everest. Captain Chet Gurung was the helicopter’s pilot. Its call sign was 9N-AMV.
The helicopter’s wreckage was discovered in Chihandanda in Lamjura of the village of Bhakanje several hours later.
Raju Neupane, operating and safety manager of Manang Air said an Altitude Air helicopter had arrived at the scene of the incident along with security personnel.
The wreckage of crashed Nepalese helicopter has been recovered, ANI reported citing police. “The helicopter has been found at the border of Likhu PK village council and Dudhkunda Municipality-2 commonly called Lamajura Danda. The villagers have retrieved the five bodies,” Koshi Province Police DIG Rajeshnath Bastola was quoted as saying by ANI.
#UPDATE | Nepal | Search team finds the wreckage of missing helicopter, five bodies recovered: Police.
“The helicopter has been found at the border of Likhu PK village council and Dudhkunda Municipality-2 commonly called Lamajura Danda. The villagers have retrieved the five…
— ANI (@ANI) July 11, 2023
There have been fatal aviation crashes in Nepal before, where a number of airlines travel to little airports in far-flung, mountainous regions that are cut off from roads and covered in clouds.
