Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous Nepal
Nepal, where six people were killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, has a history of deadly air crashes. Below are details of plane and helicopter crashes this century in the Himalayan country, where several airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and mountains shrouded in clouds and cut off from roads.
Before Tuesday's crash, 350 people had been killed in the country in 18 air crashes since 2000.JULY 11, 2023 Six people were killed in a helicopter crash in central Nepal. The chopper, which departed from Solukhunvhu district, home to Mount Everest and other high mountain peaks, had five Mexican nationals and one Nepali pilot onboard.JAN 15, 2023 A twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft carrying 72 people, operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, crashed in Pokhara, killing all onboard.
It was the worst air crash in the country since 1992 when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it ploughed into a hill as it tried to land in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu.MAY 29, 2022 Sixteen Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans died on a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft that crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara, 125 km (80 miles) west of Kathmandu. Operated by Yeti unit Tara Air, the aircraft made its first flight in April 1979, according to flight-tracking website Flightradar24.FEB 27, 2019 A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister.MARCH 12, 2018 Fifty-one of 71 people on a Bangladeshi airliner operated by US-Bangla Airlines died when it crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital's hill-ringed airport.
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