Kathmandu, Nov 3: A 47-year-old Indian citizen died and three people sustained injuries following a mid-landing collision between two helicopters in Nepal’s Mount Everest region on Tuesday.
The collision involved a Fishtail Air helicopter and an Air Dynasty helicopter at around 8:11 am in Pheriche, located within the Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality of Solukhumbu district.
Nepal Police declared that the deceased passenger was Vasanth Kumar Balaramaramadu. His body was transferred to a medical facility in Lukla shortly after the incident.
A second passenger on the Fishtail Air flight, 49-year-old Shailesh Krishna Patel, an Indian-origin resident of New Zealand, was injured and subsequently airlifted to Mediciti Hospital in Kathmandu.
The two Nepalese pilots operating the aircraft, Rabindra Prajapati of Fishtail Air and Prajwal KC of Dynasty Air, also suffered injuries and were transported to Kathmandu for emergency medical care.
Local police personnel asserted that further inquiries are underway to ascertain the full manifest of both aircraft and establish the exact sequence of events leading to the collision.
