Since 2000, there have been 18 air crashes in the country, resulting in the deaths of 350 people before the recent crash which kill෴ed five Mexican tourists and a Nepali pilot
Days after five Mexican tourists and a Nepali pilot were killed in ♛a helicopter crash while returning from viewing Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest, Nepal's aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting "non-essential" flights, including those for sight-seeing. Since 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 mounta🐓in flights, external load operations (sling flights) and showering of flowers by helicopters (will) be restricted till September,” the Civil Aviation Author♚ity of Nepal (CAAN) said in a Twitter post late on Wednesday.
The Himalayan nation, 🐼home to eight of the world’s 14 tallest mountain peaks including Mount Everest, hasꦐ a history of air crashes, as many airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and near peaks often shrouded in clouds.
In January 2023, a Yeti Airline💎s ATR 72 aircraft crashed in Pokhara, killing all 72 ﷺpeople onboard. The crash marked Nepal's worst air crash since 1992 when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed in Kathmandu, killing 167 people.
In May 2022, a Yeti unit Tara Air's De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft crashed 15 minutes after takin🐈🐟g off from Pokhara, killing 22 people.
In February 2019, a helicopter crashed in bad weather in𝐆 eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, includin🌠g the tourism minister.
In March 2018, 51 of 71 ✅people on a Bangladeshi airliner operated by US-Bangla Airlines died 𒐪after the helicopter crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital's hill-ringed airport.