Ambulance vehicles with the bodies of four Chinese passengers and the pilot from Nepal leave the site of crashed helicopter of the Nepal-based Air Dynasty in Suryachaur area, towards a hospital northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Rescuers work at the site of a helicopter that crashed in Suryachaur area, which is just northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Nirajan Shrestha)
The debris from a crashed helicopter lies on a mountainside in Suryachaur area, which is just northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Nirajan Shrestha)
Rescuers carry the bodies of four Chinese passengers and the pilot from Nepal on the site of crashed helicopter of the Nepal-based Air Dynasty in Suryachaur area, northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Ambulance vehicles with the bodies of four Chinese passengers and the pilot from Nepal leave the site of crashed helicopter of the Nepal-based Air Dynasty in Suryachaur area, towards a hospital northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — All five people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed Wednesday in the mountains just northwest of Nepal’s capital, authorities said.
The bodies of four men and a woman were pulled from the wreckage, said Krishna Prasad Humagai, the government administrator of Nuwakot district.
Police and army rescuers reached the area and two rescue helicopters were also sent to assist in the operation, the official said.
The crash site is in the Suryachaur area, which is just northwest of Kathmandu, and is on a mountain covered by forest.
The helicopter had taken off from Kathmandu international airport at 1:54 p.m. local time and was heading towards the town of Syaprubeshi.
The helicopter, an Eurocopter AS350 belonging to Nepal-based Air Dynasty, had lost contact with the tower just three minutes after takeoff, according to a statement from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.
The four passengers are Chinese nationals, and the pilot is a Nepali man, officials said.
The crash came two weeks after a just after taking off from the Kathmandu airport, killing 18 people and injuring a pilot, who was the lone survivor.
All the people onboard the Saurya Airlines flight, including the co-pilot, were Nepali except for one passenger, who was a Yemeni national.
A government investigation has been ordered into the crash of the Bombardier CRJ 200 plane, which was heading to Nepal’s second-most populous city of Pokhara for maintenance work. Most of the passengers aboard were either mechanics or airline employees, airport officials said.
The pilot has injuries to his eyes has returned home from a hospital.
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