New Delhi: 6 people including five Mexican nationals and a Nepali citizen died after a Manang Air helicopter carrying them met with an accident.
News Agency ANI quoted police as saying that the wreckage of the crashed Nepalese helicopter has been recovered.
According to reports, the Manang Air helicopter went out of contact on Tuesday morning and later it crashed at Lamjura in Likhupike Rural Municipality of Solukhumbu District. The accident spot is located between Jiri and Phaplu.
As per Lakhpa Sherpa, deputy chairman of the rural municipality, local people informed that the helicopter was found crashed at Chihandanda in Lamjura, Bhakanje village. “Locals discovered the crashed helicopter in Chihandanda,” the Sherpa informed.
The last location of the chopper with registration number 9N-AMV was tracked at 10:12 a.m. in the Lamjura Pass area. Six people including Captain Chet Bahadur Gurung, a Nepali national, were on board the plane.
