In a plane crash at the notorious Lukla airport near Mount Everest in Nepal, three people have died today. Three more people were injured, according to an airport spokesman. The small aircraft had strayed off the runway when it took off and hit two helicopters.
Among the dead are the co-pilot of the aircraft of the airline Summit Air and a police officer who was at the bottom of the accident at the time of the accident. Both were dead on the spot. Another policeman succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The misfortune cause was initially unclear, according to the speaker.
Lukla is sometimes referred to as the most dangerous airport in the world. The relatively small airport is the main access to the region around Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Thousands of mountaineers and other tourists land there every year.
Again and again there are fatal accidents, because the machines are poorly maintained and many pilots are poorly trained. Since Nepalese safety standards do not comply with European regulations, since 2013 all Nepalese airlines have been prohibited from flights in the EU
