Bhubaneswar: While a court of inquiry has been ordered and experts from Indian Air Force (IAF) have joined the investigation to ascertain the cause behind the crash of the advanced trainer Hawk aircraft in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday, the mishap was only the latest in a series of such incidents in what is known as India’s very own ‘Bermuda Triangle’.
As per military historians, at least a dozen aircraft have crashed in the small triangle formed by Piardoba near Bankura in West Bengal to Chakulia in Jharkhand and Amarda Road Airfield in Odisha. There have been many crashes in the area due to the large number of airfields that were set up in the last years of the World War II.
“On May 4, 1944, an American Liberator had collided with a Harvard Havilland plane and went up in flames at the Amarda Road airfield, which is just 75 km from Wednesday’s crash site, killing four crewmen,” said war historian Anil Dhir.
05/06/15 Odisha Business Times
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As per military historians, at least a dozen aircraft have crashed in the small triangle formed by Piardoba near Bankura in West Bengal to Chakulia in Jharkhand and Amarda Road Airfield in Odisha. There have been many crashes in the area due to the large number of airfields that were set up in the last years of the World War II.
“On May 4, 1944, an American Liberator had collided with a Harvard Havilland plane and went up in flames at the Amarda Road airfield, which is just 75 km from Wednesday’s crash site, killing four crewmen,” said war historian Anil Dhir.
05/06/15 Odisha Business Times
