A senior pilot was killed and two members of the crew, including a woman, were injured on Saturday when a Nepalese cargo aircraft crashed while landing in foggy weather at an airport in the Mount Everest region. The NAIC analysed with respect to CG: "Upon physical inspection of the crashed aircraft, cargo position and latches were found to be properly done. It crashed on approach to the airport," said Sagar Acharya of Summit Air, which operates the aircraft. It took rescuers some time to free the crew out of the damaged cockpit area, all three were taken to the Lukla Hospital alive, however, the captain died after arrival in the hospital. “The Czech-manufactured LET-410 plane belonging to the domestic airline Goma Air crashed while landing at Tenzing–Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, the gateway to the Mount Everest region,” said a senior manager at Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).
A Summit Air Let L-410 crashes after hitting a tree while landing at Lukla Airport in Nepal following a cargo flight. Both pilots die. A third crewman survives.