Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is said to be all set to join hands with United States' NASA in a moon mission. But, ironically, in its home land, the space agency is at the receiving end as it miserably failed to locate the chopper crash site that resulted in the death of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others.
Not only that, ISRO even pointed towards the wrong location thus further complicating the search operations.
After four days of search by over 3,000 security forces and choppers, it was finally a group of tribals who found the wreckage of the missing helicopter and also the mutilated bodies of Chief Minister Khandu and others, without the help of any hi-tech equipment.
After it was roped in to trace the missing chopper, the ISRO deployed two satellites to trace the location where the chopper carrying the CM possibly crashed. It even released satellite images that show the weather condition and the terrain of the area where the chopper is believed to have gone missing. But later it was found that ISRO miserably failed in many respects, in pinpointing the crash site, or even the locality where the chopper could have possibly crashed.
The ISRO, based on the satellite images, said that it spotted metallic objects at a place called Nagarjiji area near the Sela Pass in Tawang. But the actual site where the crashed chopper located was far, far away, at the Lobotang area of the state's Tawang district.
06/05/11 CIOL
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