Days after five Mexican tourists and a바카라 웹사이트Nepali pilot were killed in a helicopter crash바카라 웹사이트while returning from viewing Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest,바카라 웹사이트Nepal's aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting "non-essential" flights, including those for sight-seeing.바카라 웹사이트Since 2000, there have been 18 air crashes in the country, resulting in the deaths of 350 people before the recent crash.
“Non-essential flights like mountain flights, external load operations (sling flights) and showering of flowers by helicopters (will) be restricted till September,” the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a Twitter post late on Wednesday.바카라 웹사이트
Helicopter crashes in Nepal
The Himalayan nation, home to eight of the world라이브 바카라 14 tallest mountain peaks including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes, as many airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and near peaks often shrouded in clouds.바카라 웹사이트
In January 2023, a바카라 웹사이트Yeti Airlines ATR 72 aircraft crashed in Pokhara, killing all 72 people onboard. The crash바카라 웹사이트marked바카라 웹사이트Nepal's worst air crash since 1992 when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed in Kathmandu, killing 167 people.바카라 웹사이트
In May 2022, a바카라 웹사이트Yeti unit Tara Air's De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara, killing 22 people.
In February 2019, a바카라 웹사이트helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister.
In March 2018,바카라 웹사이트51 of 71 people on a Bangladeshi airliner operated by US-Bangla Airlines died after the helicopter crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital's hill-ringed airport.
