All five passengers and the pilot have died after a helicopter carrying foreign tourists from a sightseeing trip crashed shortly after take-off.
Ednews informs via DW that a helicopter has crashed near Mount Everest in Nepal, killing all six people on board, aviation authorities confirmed Tuesday.
Reports said earlier that contact with the Manang Air helicopter, which took off from Surki in the Solukhumbu district bound for the capital Kathmandu, was lost 15 minutes after its departure on Tuesday morning.
The helicopter was carrying five Mexican tourists and a Nepali pilot, government officials told news agencies.
Locals reported that the chopper was found crashed at Chihandanda in Lamjura of Bhakanje village, the Kathmandu Post cited a rural municipal official as saying.
The cause of the crash was not yet known, Nepal’s civil aviation regulator said, adding that the government would set up a committee to investigate.