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    Home ยป Helicopter Crash In Nepal Kills All Five On Board, Including Four Chinese Tourists
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    Helicopter Crash In Nepal Kills All Five On Board, Including Four Chinese Tourists

    By Samuel AkpenpuunAugust 7, 2024No Comments5 Views2 Mins Read
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    A helicopter crashed in central Nepal on Wednesday, killing all five people aboard including the pilot and four Chinese passengers.

    Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the decades.

    The Air Dynasty chopper was heading to Syabrubesi, a starting point for many trekking routes popular with tourists, from the capital Kathmandu.

    It lost contact about three minutes after taking off, a press release from the Civil Aviation Authority said, and crashed in Nuwakot district north of the capital.

    โ€œAll five people aboard including the pilot are dead,โ€ police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told AFP.

    Nuwakot district officer Ram Krishna Adhikari, said five dead bodies have been retrieved from the accident site.

    โ€œPolice have already reached the site and the rescue operation is going on,โ€ he said.

    Nepalโ€™s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.

    But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance, issues compounded by mountainous Nepalโ€™s treacherous geography.

    The Himalayan republic has some of the worldโ€™s most remote and tricky runways, flanked by snow-capped peaks with approaches that pose a challenge even for accomplished pilots.

    The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.

    Wednesdayโ€™s incident comes two weeks after a plane crash in Kathmandu killed all 18 aboard except the pilot.

    Nepalโ€™s last major incident involving a commercial flight was in January 2023, when a Yeti Airlines service crashed while landing at Pokhara, killing all 72 aboard.

    That was Nepalโ€™s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu airport.

    A Thai Airways aircraft crashed near the same airport earlier that year, killing 113 people.

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