Air Crash in the Himalayas

"You know I didn't kill your parents. Why would I have gone to such trouble to hide it with a plane crash?"

- Madame Gao to Danny Rand

The Air Crash in the Himalayas was an attempt by Harold Meachum and Madame Gao to prevent Wendell Rand from exposing the illegal activities being conducted within Rand Enterprises.

Background
In 2001, Rand Enterprises co-founder Harold Meachum began receiving treatment for terminal cancer. Around the same time, he and Wendell Rand were approached by Madame Gao, who sought to make a business deal. Rand disapproved, but Meachum agreed to the deal without question. Unbeknownst to Rand, Gao promised to help cure Meachum's cancer if he built several laboratories in China for the purpose of expanding her drug manufacturing operation.

After uncovering Meachum's treacherous actions, Rand charted a plane to China and planned to take his wife Heather and son Danny with him, not telling them that he planned to expose the existence of the laboratories.

Meachum later met with Madame Gao and told her about his plan to prevent Rand from bringing back proof by causing his plane to crash mid-flight. Despite Madame Gao's insistence that it would bring unwanted attention, Meachum convinced her to go through with the plan.

Before the Rands left the United States, Meachum injected the pilots with a poison he previously obtained from Madame Gao.

Air Crash
En route to Anzhou, both pilots succumbed to the poison and lost control of the plane. In the main cabin, the increasing turbulence caused Danny to hit his head, prompting Heather to make sure he was still conscious.

At that moment, the roof of the plane ripped off and caused Heather to be sucked outside, where he fell to her death. As Rand told Danny that he loved him, the plane crashed into the Himalayan mountain range, instantly killing the former and knocking the latter unconscious.

Aftermath
Regaining consciousness, Danny attempted to find his mother's body but was unable to do so and stayed next to his father's corpse. As he lay in the snow, members of the Order of the Crane Mother found the boy and took him to the mystical city of K'un-Lun, where they would spend the next several decades training him.

In the United States, newspapers reported on the crash, convincing the general public that Danny died with his parents.

In 2003, Meachum purchased a building where he could live in secret after his resurrection. The following year, Meachum died and was resurrected three days later. He proceeded to live his new life, unaware that Madame Gao used the opportunity to start infiltrating Rand Enterprises and controlling it from the inside.