KATHMANDU: All seven on board including a newborn, five adults and captain died in a Fishtail Air helicopter crash in Madanpur of Nuwakot district of central Nepal on Monday, according to a senior official in the district.

Nuwakot Chief District Officer Bishnu Prasad Pokharel said the 9N-AKA chopper crashed in a forest in Madanpur-9 of the district.

Fishtail's Chief Executive Officer Suman Pandey also confirmed the report.

Captain Ranjan Limbu during a flight. Photo: Facebook

Captain Ranjan Limbu was piloting the chopper, which was ferrying a critical patient among others from remote Philim of Gorkha district.

Limbu was flying Fishtail choppers since 2010 and had already acquired over 2,500 flight hours, according to the company's website.

Meanwhile, the victims include four persons of a single family including a five-day-old child, according to the Rastriya Samachar Samiti.

The RSS report filed from Gorkha quoted Chief District Officer Narayan Prasad Bhatta as saying Kitman Gurung (60) from Philim of Sirdiwas-2, his 56-year-old wife Agyani, their 19-year-old daughter-in-law Priti and Priti's newborn child were on board the chopper.

Two other passengers have been identified as local Laxmi Gurung and a health worker Nisha Tamang. Tamang was a permanent resident of Itahari in Sunsari district and was deployed in the Gorkha village by a non-government organisation called PHASE Nepal.

The chopper had left the Gorkha village for Kathmandu before the noon today.

Cause behind the accident is yet to be ascertained.

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