Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: a helicopter near Tengboche in the Everest region, October 2009, not one of the aircraft in Tuesday's collision) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING World · 13:00
Two helicopters collide while landing near Everest in Nepal, Indian tourist killed
Two helicopters collided as they were landing at the same helipad in Pheriche, on the main trekking route to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, on Tuesday morning, 3 November. A 47-year-old Indian tourist from Chennai was killed, Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority said. A New Zealander travelling with him and the pilots of both helicopters were injured. The cause is not yet known and an investigation has begun.