Leuzi Cardoso

The Cardoso Family is in mine, and my families prayers! Sis Cardoso was a great women who I have known for years!! She usually kept quiet to herself, but when she sang she had a voice that was so amazing! That is what I will remember her as, her amazing singing voice, and her personality!
I give her family my condolences!
Rest In Paradise
Sis Cardoso.

this is the story written by the daily herald.

"Two Provo women trying to fulfill a longtime dream were killed in a plane crash in Nepal on Tuesday.

Leuzi Cardoso, 49, and Heather Finch, 40, were among the passengers killed when their small plane crashed in heavy rain while heading to the Mount Everest region on Tuesday in Nepal. In all, 14 people were killed.

The two Provo women were employees of the Provo law firm of Howard, Lewis & Petersen.

"This had been their lifelong dream. They had been talking about this for years and years and years," said John Valentine, managing shareholder of the firm. "It's just a tragedy. We're really reeling from it."

The women had been hiking Utah peaks for some time in preparation for their trek, including reaching the top of King's Peak -- Utah's tallest -- a few weeks ago. According to various websites, the Nepal trek is a popular one that takes roughly eight days and climbs from 9,000 feet to 18,000 feet.

"They've been hiking all over the mountains here in Utah trying to get themselves acclimatized," Valentine said.

Cardoso was the office manager and had been with the firm for 29 years. She was quiet but was known for her efficiency with all the systems in the office and knowledge of human resources.

"She had a way of fixing and figuring out anything," said Helen Anderson, Provo city spokeswoman and a former employee at the firm.

At one point, Anderson was going through law school and Cardoso considered it, too. She eventually enrolled and even used Anderson's law books, refusing to take them for free.

"She went to law school for about six months and then decided her family needed her more," Anderson said, noting that Cardoso raised several foster kids.

Finch was the firm's lead paralegal and had been with them for 16 years. She was an avid photographer and would often head to the outdoors with Cardoso.

"They were actually best of friends," Valentine said.

They were also both married -- Finch to Utah County prosecutor Doug Finch -- with children of varying ages.

The private Agni Air plane went down near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles south of Katmandu, area police chief Ram Bahadur Shrestha said.

The German-built Dornier turboprop airplane was carrying 11 passengers and three crew members. It was headed to Lukla -- a popular stop for trekkers and mountaineers -- when cloud cover there forced it to turn back to the capital.

Ram Bahadur Gole, a villager who witnessed the accident, told Avenues Television network that the crash impact broke the plane into several pieces that were scattered on a hillside.

Tri Ratna Manandhar of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal confirmed there were no survivors. Manandhar said there were four Americans, one Briton and one Japanese aboard, while the remaining passengers and crew were Nepalese.

Agni Air said the foreigners were tourists. It identified the other Americans as Irina Shekhets, 30, and Kendra Fallon, 18. The Japanese passenger was Yuki Hayashe, 19, and British, Jeremy Taylor, 30.

After an initial delay in reaching the crash site because of poor weather conditions, a rescue helicopter retrieved some of the bodies to Katmandu late Tuesday. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and American and Japanese diplomats were at the airport.

The bodies would be moved to a Katmandu hospital for identification, and retrieving the rest of the remains from the remote crash site would continue Wednesday, officials said.

The rescue coordination office at Katmandu's Tribhuwan International Airport said in a statement that soldiers had initially reached the crash site on foot. The area has no roads and is only accessible by foot. The route from the nearest town was blocked by a river flooded by monsoon rainfall.

Lukla is the only air strip in the Everest region. Thousands of trekkers and mountaineers fly there every year to begin their journey to Everest and surrounding peaks and trekking trails. However, few travel there during the monsoon season. It is little more than a runway carved into the side of the Himalayas at an altitude of 9,200 feet.

The Dornier 228 twin-turboprop had its first flight in 1981. A total of 270 were built by German planemaker Dornier and India's HAL. About 120 of those remain in service worldwide.

According to the U.S.-based Aviation Safety Network, 29 have been lost in various accidents, with a total of 122 fatalities."

Joe Pyrah - Daily Herald Daily Herald