Six Die in Helicopter Crash Near Everest
Five tourists and one pilot died after the helicopter crashed for a yet determined reason
Officials said that six people, including five foreigners and a Nepali pilot, have died in a helicopter crash near Mount Everest. The accident took place on July 11 in a helicopter managed by Manang Air, a tour company in the Himalaya.
“Locals discovered the crashed helicopter at Chihandanda,” said municipality deputy chair Nwang Lhakpa. Search and rescue technicians then located the crash site and recovered the bodies. The cause of the crash has not been determined.
The pilot was named as Captain Chet Gurung, and the passengers were members of a family from Mexico: Sifuentes G. Fernando (95) and Sifuentes Rincon Ismail (98), Sifuentes Gongalez Abril (72), Gongalez Olacio Luz (65) and Sifuentes G. Maria Jese (52).
The mountaineering and tourist season in Nepal typically ends in May, as weather and visibility worsens. In January, 71 people died in Nepal’s worst air crash in 30 years, when a plane went down near the tourist city of Pokhara.
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