A Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Navy crashed shut to the Mandala hills location in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday (March 16), killing the pilot and co-pilot on board. The pilots had been recognized as Lieutenant Colonel VVB Reddy and Necessary Jayanth A.
Taking to Twitter, the Jap Repeat of the navy said, “Lieutenant Total RP Kalita, Navy Cdr EC & All Ranks offer tribute to the supreme sacrifice of Lt Col VVB Reddy and Maj Jayanth A, in the toll road of accountability at Mandala, Arunachal Pradesh while accomplishing operational flying of Cheetah Helicopter. Indian Navy stands firm with the bereaved families.”
Earlier in the day, Lieutenant Colonel Mahendra Rawat, the general public family officer (PRO) at Defence Guwahati, urged the news agency ANI that the helicopter became flying an operational sortie shut to Bomdila and became reported to have lost contact with the ATC at spherical 9.15 am.
Earlier, the Arunachal Pradesh Police said search and rescue groups of the navy, the SSB and the police left for the crash residing. Alternatively, no visuals had been accessible because the placement had no signal.
This incident in Arunachal Pradesh extra than two years after 13 personnel of the Indian Air Power (IAF) died after their AN-32 aircraft crashed on June 3, 2019, after taking off from Assam`s Jorhat. The aircraft became headed for Mechuka Developed Landing Ground (ALG) in Arunachal Pradesh when it lost contact with ground authorities at spherical 1 pm.
After big search and rescue operations, the wreckage of the aircraft became positioned by a Mi-17 chopper. The remains of IAF personnel had been retrieved on June 20 from Arunachal Pradesh the assign the aircraft crashed.
On January 28 this year, two fighter jets of the Air Power crashed, killing one pilot and injuring two others, in an apparent mid-air collision while on workout routines south of the capital Fresh Delhi. The crash alive to a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30, carrying two pilots, and a French-constructed Mirage 2000.
Both these aircraft took off from the Gwalior air inferior, spherical 50 kilometres east of the assign they came down.
(With inputs from companies)
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