At about 9 am on April 14, 2019, while taxiing along the runway at Lukla Airport (Nepal), a Summit Air plane crashed into two helicopters “parked” nearby. Several people died.
According to Nepalese press reports, the plane that caused the disaster was about to take off. He was heading to Manthali Airport (better known as Ramechhap), where most of the Everest flights were transferred due to the repair of the runway at Kathmandu Airport.
Lukla Airport, where the accident occurred, is called the “Gateway of Everest” because... from here begins both the trek to the foot of this mountain and the route of most mountaineering expeditions to Chomolungma. Well, the second, no less common epithet of Lukla is “the most extreme airport in the world.” In fact, this is a controversial statement, but this time it received very clear confirmation.