Kathmandu, February 25
An investigation committee formed to look into a helicopter crash in which the then Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Rabindra Adhikari submitted its final report to the government on Monday.
Minister Adhikari among seven persons was killed in the crash in the Pathibhara region of Taplejung district of eastern Nepal on February 27 last year.
The report has identified unfavourable weather and snowstorm as the major causes of the accident. However, there were several other human-made causes that resulted in the crash, according to the report.
Various provisions in the country’s aviation system were responsible for the crash rather than the pilot who operated the helicopter, the investigation concludes. The probe has found that the load that the chopper was carrying was bigger than allowed to that type of the chopper at the altitude of the place. Likewise, the helicopter had taken off the helipad in the first minute after starting the engine.
