Nepal Helicopter Collision | Hyderabad, Nov. 3: A 47-year-old Indian national was killed and another passenger injured after two helicopters collided while landing at Pheriche in Nepal’s Solukhumbu district on Tuesday morning, police said.
The accident occurred at around 8.11 am local time in Ward 4 of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality. The helicopters, operated by Fishtail Air and Air Dynasty, had taken off from Lukla Airport, the gateway to Mount Everest.
Nepal Helicopter Collision Kills Indian Passenger, Several Injured
Police Inspector Mausam Tamang identified the deceased as Vasanth Kumar Balaramaramadu, an Indian national travelling aboard the Fishtail Air helicopter.
Another passenger on the same helicopter, Shailesh Krishna Patel, 49, an Indian-origin resident of New Zealand, sustained injuries. He was airlifted to Mediciti Hospital in Kathmandu by a Prabhu Helicopter.
The pilots of both helicopters were also injured. They were identified as Rabindra Prajapati of Fishtail Air and Prajwal KC of Air Dynasty. Both were taken to Kathmandu for further treatment. The Air Dynasty helicopter was carrying cargo at the time of the collision.
Pheriche is located along the route to the Mount Everest Base Camp, around 150 kilometres northeast of Kathmandu.
Police said Balaramaramadu’s body was taken to a hospital in Lukla and would later be shifted to Kathmandu for postmortem examination.
The number of passengers aboard the two helicopters at the time of the collision has not yet been confirmed. Police are gathering further details about the incident.
Helicopter and aviation accidents have occurred frequently in Nepal, where challenging mountainous terrain, unpredictable high-altitude weather and ageing infrastructure pose significant operational risks.
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