Nineteen people were killed in a plane crash near Mount Everest on Friday when their aircraft hit a bird shortly after taking off from the airport in Kathmandu. The passengers—seven British, five Chinese, and four Nepalese on their way to Mount Everest, plus three crew members—all perished in the crash 1,600 feet from the runway. Nepal's aviation safety standards are far behind the global average, and this was the country's seventh fatal plane crash in just over two years.
