Lost copter trail leads to Bhutan

New Delhi: The missing chopper with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others could have possibly landed or crashed at Ptag in Bhutan.
“A search team of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has left for Bhutan at 9.30 on Tuesday morning,” official sources in the force told Deccan Herald. They scotched speculation that the helicopter may have crossed into the Chinese air space.
Local intelligence gave information of “blasting sounds” heard from the region where foot-search will shortly be launched. “Satellite imagery has corroborated flight path there,” sources said.
The ITBP team would comb the area early Wednesday to verify “the status of the evidence” there. They will be climbing about 3000 to 4000 metres to reach the area where the helicopter is suspected to have landed or crashed.
03/05/11 Deepak K Upreti/Deccan Herald

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