Chinese chopper violated Indian airspace: Army

New Delhi: Indian Army Chief of Staff General Deepak Kapoor on Monday admitted that Chinese helicopters had violated the Indian airspace along the Line of Actual Control in Leh.
"There has been one incursion of a Chinese helicopter sometime back. At times this can also happen due to navigation error but this is not to justify that the incursion took place. It has happened and that has been taken up in the border personnel meeting with the Chinese," General Kapoor said in New Delhi.
According to reports at least two violations by Chinese helicopters had taken place in the past few months.
Two Chinese helicopters reportedly violated the Indian airspace recently in Ladakh area of Leh. The helicopters air-dropped some canned food in a barren land at Chumar, northeast of Leh, along the border on June 21.
The MI series helicopters were reported to the nearby defence post by local residents who live along the Pangong Lake.
The incursions prompted the Army Aviation Corps to scramble its own aircraft, but the Chinese helicopters had retreated behind their lines by the time.
Moreover it is not only the aggression shown by Chinese forces that is worrying the Indian defence establishment.
31/08/09 CNN-IBN

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2009