What Really Happened at the Everest Helicopter Crash?

Описание: Eight seconds. That's how long the helipad camera at Pheriche, near Mount Everest, shows the first helicopter before two of them meet over the same patch of snow. 🚁 On Tuesday morning, 3 November 2026, a red Fishtail Air AS350 coming down from Gorak Shep and a white Air Dynasty AS350 on a cargo flight from Lukla came in to land at the same helipad, more than 4,000 metres up. A line of trekkers was waiting a few steps away.

In this animated reconstruction, we go through the real helipad footage frame by frame and rebuild those eight seconds in 3D: who came from where, which helicopter was descending faster, where the rotor struck, and why there was no controller to separate them. Then we look at why the sky over Nepal is one of the hardest places in the world to fly, through three other cases: Lukla 2019, Kathmandu 2018 with the real tower recording, and Pokhara 2023.

How do two helicopters end up over the same spot in clear weather, on a pad big enough for seven? What did investigators recommend after an earlier crash in the same valley? And what is still unanswered?

No cause has been determined. This is a reconstruction based on the real footage, official statements and news reports. Where sources disagree, we say so.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu, 47, from Chennai, India, who was killed, and with everyone injured.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 The Last 8 Seconds
00:30 Pheriche, 8 a.m.
01:58 The Real Footage
02:44 Reconstruction: The Collision
03:27 What Officials Say
04:14 Lukla, 2019
05:19 Kathmandu, 2018: The Real Tower Audio
06:52 Pokhara, 2023
08:00 Why This Sky
08:33 The Open Questions

SOURCES
Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) statements, 3 Nov 2026, via BBC News, The Kathmandu Post, Nepal News
Fishtail Air and Air Dynasty statements, via BBC News
BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmq...
The Kathmandu Post: https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/...
Onlinekhabar: https://english.onlinekhabar.com/heli...
Aerospace Global News: https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/...
Helipad CCTV and Nepal Police handout images, as circulated on social media and by news agencies
Lukla 2019: Nepal AAIC final report (Feb 2020), via AeroInside / ASN; CCTV via The Kathmandu Post
US-Bangla 211: LiveATC.net recording (Kathmandu Tower); Nepal AAIC final report (Jan 2019)
Yeti Airlines 691: Nepal AAIC final report (Dec 2023); Facebook Live by passenger Sonu Jaiswal
EU Air Safety List (European Commission), June 2026 update
Photos: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA: TMLN1234, Bhupendra Shrestha and others), AirHistory.net / Fabio Boecklin, Air Dynasty

This video contains a realistic 3D reconstruction and AI-generated thumbnail artwork. Real footage is labelled on screen; its sound is reconstructed.

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