A senior pilot and co-pilot were killed when an aircraft belonging to Summit (Goma) Air crashed while landing in foggy weather at tiny Lukla Airport in the Mt Everest region on Saturday afternoon.
Senior captain of the 9N-AKY (LET 10) cargo flight Paras Kumar Rai, 48, died on the spot.
Critically injured co-pilot Srijan Manandhar was rushed to a hospital in Lukla but he succumbed to injuries nearly eight hours after the accident.