What: Manang Air MI-17 helicopter
Where: Rodikot, Humla district in mid-western Nepal
When: 2009-11-15 11:30 a.m. local time
Who: 6 on board. 1 dies, 5 survivors.
Why: While attempting to land at the helipad while transporting grain and food items from Surkhet to a remote mountain village, the helicopter’s rear rotors hit the mountainside and the pilot lost control of the aircraft.

The death is reported to be a Russian engineer Sergei Kovyazo.

The others aboard—copilot Raju Bhandari, accountant Krishna Amatya, overseer Bishnu Bahadur Chaudhary, local resident Lok Bahadur and a Russian pilot—were via helicopter to a Nepalgunj hospital in Nepalgunj.

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