PLANE AND HELICOPTER CRASHES IN NEPAL
Mountainous Nepal has a history of deadly air crashes. Here are details of plane and helicopter crashes this century.
Before Sunday’s crash, 273 people had been killed in the country in 17 air crashes since 2000.
JAN 15: A twin-engined ATR 72 aircraft carrying 72 people, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, crashed in Pokhara, killing at least 68.
MAY 29, 2022: Sixteen Nepalis, four Indians and two Germans died on a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft that crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara.
FEB. 27, 2019: A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister.
MARCH 12, 2018: Fifty-one of 71 people on a Bangladeshi airliner operated by US-Bangla Airlines died when it crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital’s hill-ringed airport.
FEB. 26, 2016: Two people were feared dead after a small plane crashed in western Nepal’s Kalikot district.
FEB. 24, 2016: A Twin Otter aircraft crashed in bad weather, killing all 23 people on board.
FEB. 16, 2014: All 18 people on a small plane that crashed in bad weather were killed.
SEPT. 28, 2012: A small Dornier aircraft struck a bird and crashed shortly after take-off from Kathmandu, killing 19 people.
SEPT. 25, 2011: A small plane carrying foreign tourists crashed in bad weather near Kathmandu, killing all 19 people on board.
DEC. 16, 2010: A small plane crashed in the Himalayan foothills of remote east Nepal, killing all 22 people on-board.
AUG. 24, 2010: Fourteen people — including were killed when their small plane crashed in bad weather in Nepal.
OCT. 8, 2008: A small Twin Otter plane crashed in the remote mountains of northeast Nepal, killing at least 18 people.
MARCH 4, 2008: Four UN arms monitors were among at least 10 people killed in a helicopter crash.
JUNE 21, 2006: A Twin Otter passenger plane crashed minutes before landing in the west of the country, killing all nine people on-board.
MAY 25, 2004: A Twin Otter cargo plane crashed in the Mount Everest region, killing its three crew.
AUG 22, 2002: Another Twin Otter plane slammed into a mountain in bad weather in Nepal, killing all 18 people on board.
JULY 17, 2002: Four people were feared dead after a twin-engined aircraft crashed into a mountain in west Nepal.
JULY 27, 2000: A Canadian-built Twin Otter passenger plane crashed in western Nepal, killing all 25 people on board.