{"id":33257,"date":"2023-07-13T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33257"},"modified":"2023-07-13T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:19:08","slug":"nepal-bans-non-essential-flights-by-helicopters-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=33257","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Bans &#8220;Non-Essential Flights&#8221; By Helicopters After Deadly Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KATHMANDU:<\/strong> Nepal&#8217;s aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting &#8220;non-essential&#8221; flights, including those for sight-seeing, for two months after a deadly crash in the Everest region in which six people were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five Mexican tourists and the Nepali pilot of a small helicopter operated by the private Manang Air company were killed on Tuesday when their chopper crashed while returning from viewing Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNon-essential flights like mountain flights, external load operations (sling flights) and showering of flowers by helicopters (will) be restricted till September,\u201d the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a Twitter post late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nepal, which is in the midst of the annual June-September monsoon season, has formed an investigation committee to find out what caused Tuesday&#8217;s crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Himalayan nation, home to eight of the world&#8217;s 14 tallest mountain peaks including Mount Everest, has a&nbsp;history&nbsp;of air crashes, as many airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and near peaks often shrouded in clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nepal&#8217;s worst\u00a0air crash\u00a0in 30 years killed 71 people in January, when a plane went down near the tourist city of Pokhara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: Nepal&#8217;s aviation regulator has banned helicopters from conducting &#8220;non-essential&#8221; flights, including those for sight-seeing, for two months after a deadly crash in the Everest region in which six people were killed. Five Mexican tourists and the Nepali pilot of a small helicopter operated by the private Manang Air company were killed on Tuesday when their chopper crashed while returning from viewing Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest. \u201cNon-essential flights like mountain flights, external load operations (sling flights) and showering of flowers by helicopters (will) be restricted till September,\u201d the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said in a Twitter post&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33258,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions\/33258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}