A cliff at Betini of Madanpur-9 in Nuwakot district on Monday afternoon, killing all seven people, including a baby, on board.The chopper with call sign 9N-AKA, which had taken off from Gorkha for Kathmandu, had established last contact with the air traffic controller at 12:32pm, according to the Tribhuvan International Airport. The chopper was chartered to fly the five-month-old baby to Kathmandu for treatment.Captain Ranjan Limbu, Nisha Tamang, a nurse, Laxmi Gurung, Kitman Gurung, Aagyani Gurung, Priti Gurung and herfive-day-old son were killed in the tragedy. The chopper had burst into flames after a deadly impact on the cliff, said Sanjiv Gautam, director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan), citing field reports. The wreckage of the helicopter was found at Betini at 5,300 feet, with all people burnt to death. nitial reports suggest the chopper was forced to circle over the Nuwakot skies for many times. “It had entered the cloud,” said Gautam. “The captain might have lost situational awareness and lost control of the aircraft.” Suresh Acharya, joint-secretary at the Tourism Ministry, who heads the aviation safety division, said the helicopter had established contacts with the air traffic controller from the same location which it had reported 10 minutes earlier. “This suggests the chopper had made a frequent rotation over the Nuwakot skies for 10 minutes,” he said. The Caan said the en-route weather was “not fair enough to fly”. It also created difficulties for the search and rescue operations. - See more at: http://www.kantipurvdo.com/videos/seven-killed-in-fishtail-air-chopper-crash/#sthash.F5GCze0V.dpuf
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