A HELICOPTER with six people on board has vanished near Mount Everest. The chopper – carrying five foreign nationals and the pilot – went missing shortly after taking off from Surke Air…
The chopper - carrying five foreign nationals and the pilot - went missing shortly after taking off from Surke Airport in Nepal.It dropped off the radar at 10.13am local time at an altitude above 12,000 feet - minutes after it departed at 10.05am.
Authorities are also frantically monitoring and analysing the chopper's GPS system to try to pinpoint its location. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal tweeted: "Manang Air helicopter 9N-AMV which departed from Surke to Kathmandu at 10:05 local time is out of contact.
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