Wreckage of missing tourist helicopter in Nepal found along with 5 bodies. Five tourists were on board a tourist helicopter that crashed this morning close to Mount Everest in Nepal. Three hours after the helicopter disappeared the bodies and the wreckage were discovered.
Soon after takeoff, the private helicopter carrying five Mexican nationals crashed at Lamjura in the mountainous Solukhumbu district, according to officials.
At 10.04 a.m., the Manang Air NA-MV helicopter took off for Kathmandu from the Surke Airport; it lost contact at about 10.12 a.m., according to Gyanendra Bhul, manager of Tribhuvan International Airport.
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The crash may have been caused by the helicopter colliding with a tree on the hilltop. Two helicopters were dispatched to find the missing helicopter, but due to bad weather, they had to turn around.
Locals reported hearing a loud explosion when the helicopter crashed at Chihandanda in the Lamjura region to the police.
As the wreckage of a missing tourist helicopter in Nepal was found along with 5 bodies, after witnesses notified the police, a rescue team arrived at the scene of the crash.
According to aviation officials, an investigation has been started to determine the precise cause of the crash.
Manang Air, a 1997 startup, specializes in individualized services like adventure flights and offers chartered services in Nepal.
Nepal officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and India in the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the Indian state of Sikkim.
Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world’s ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation’s capital and the largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language.
