New Delhi — A helicopter carrying foreign vacationers crashed close to Mount Everest in Nepal, killing all six humans on board, authorities stated Tuesday. The our bodies of 5 Mexican tourists, which includes three women, and a Nepali pilot were located at the crash site.
The private business helicopter, operated by using Manang Air, crashed early Tuesday in the far off mountainous district of Solukhumbu, east of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. It was carrying the vacationers on a sightseeing tour of the Mount Everest region.
Manang Air is among a number of services that function such excursions of Nepal’s iconic mountain peaks. 
The helicopter took off at about 9:45 a.m. nearby time, headed again to the capital Kathmandu after its tour. Air traffic manipulate lost contact with the helicopter much less than half of an hour after take-off, in accordance to nearby officials.
“Locals determined the crashed helicopter at Chihandanda,” rural municipality deputy chair Nwang Lhakpa was once quoted as pronouncing by the Kathmandu Post.
Nepal’s civil aviation authority used to be expected to launch a formal investigation into the cause of the crash.
“The climate was now not bad. Now we can’t say what triggered the crash. It will have to be investigated,” Raju Neupane, a spokesperson for Manang Air, was quoted as pronouncing by the Reuters information agency.
The crash was the modern-day in a sequence of aviation accidents to hit Nepal – a united states of america of rugged terrain and small, difficult air strips. According to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety database, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946.
Earlier this year, seventy two people were killed when a passenger jet crashed as it tried to land in Pokhara in central Nepal, in the country’s deadliest aviation accident in three decades.
In 1992, all 167 humans on board a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft were killed when it crashed into a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu.
Last year, 22 humans died when a aircraft crashed into a mountainside in Nepal.