BSF team visits helicopter crash site in Sirohi

Jaipur: A BSF team comprising of technical experts on saturday visited the site in Sirohi district in Rajasthan to probe the helicopter crash that left four people dead.
The mishap took place on Friday when the helicopter crashed in the hills of village Fatehpura near Abu Road here in the Sirohi district, killing all the four occupants, including the pilot.
"A BSF team headed by an IG rank official reached the crash site today and investigated the matter to ascertain the causes behind the incident," BSF DIG (Rajasthan Frontier) R C Dhyani told PTI.
"The occupants of the helicopter were identified as Captain Bal (pilot), co-pilot Vivek Choudhary (Deputy Commandant- BSF), BSF's Sub-Inspector Sohan Lal and an engineer of Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited S S Chopra," he said.

Four Army personnel were killed on April 22 in a Dhruv helicopter crash in north Sikkim near the Sino-India border.
The mishap occurred just three days after a Russian-origin MI-17-2 chopper, owned by Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited, crashed claiming 17 lives after it took off from Guwahati for Tawang.
Another Pawan Hans helicopter had crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on April 30 killing Chief Minister Dorji Khandu along with four others. The wreckage was located on May 4.
14/05/11 Press Trust Of India/IBN Live

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Categories: Safety May 2011