Helicopter crash

October 29, 2025 10:44 AM

Unseasonably heavy snowfall halts Everest tourism in Nepal, Tibet

The Nepali and Chinese sides of the Everest region were closed to tourism on Wednesday due to unseasonally heavy snow, and a helicopter crashed in deep snowdrifts as it tried to rescue stranded trekkers. Visited by thousands of trekkers and climbers, the region around Mount Everest has been blanketed by snow since Monday as a cyclone from the Bay of Bengal churned across India, ushering in a second bout of severe snowfall in the Himalayas this month. Authorities in Nepal have halted trekking o...

May 8, 2025 1:21 PM

Five killed, two injured in helicopter crash near Uttarakhand’s Gangnani

Five tourists lost their lives and two others were injured when a helicopter crashed near Gangnani in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district on Thursday morning. The privately operated helicopter was en route from Dehradun’s Sahastradhara to Harshil when it went down around 9 a.m., plunging into a 200–250 metre-deep gorge near Gangnani. Seven people were onboard: passengers Vinit Gupta, Arvind Agarwal, Vipin Agarwal, Pinki Agarwal, Rashmi and Kishore Jadhav, and pilot Robin Singh. Four of the...

September 16, 2024 6:37 PM

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash, PM Modi offers condolences

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his condolences on the demise of President Raisi, saying that his "contribution to strengthening India-Iran bilateral relationship will always be remembered." In a post on X, PM Modi wrote: "Deeply saddene...