Chennai: One of the big questions that is facing the armed forces as well as the nation is — how a helicopter carrying a very very important person – India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat — crashed resulting in the death of several persons.
“Comprehensive checks of the helicopter would have been done. There would have been a standby helicopter as well. The weather condition would have been checked. In this case, if the weather at Wellington was marginal, they may have decided to make an attempt and then call it off,” said a former official of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The official said, technical snag or weather could have been the factor due to which crash happened.
According to him, if all things were normal, the one possibility is that, as the chopper was close to Coonoor, it would have been flying low and or may be flew into the hill, to duck beneath the clouds.
The chopper will have a black box and a study of that could throw more light on the cause of the accident.
Locals who saw the chopper crash helped in rescue operations. An eyewitness said, it was misty, may be due to which the chopper hit a tree and went down. He said he reached the spot and saw the chopper was upside down and immediately caught fire.
Confirming about General Rawat’s presence, Indian Air Force tweeted, “An IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter, with CDS Gen Bipin Rawat on board, met with an accident today near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.”
08/12/21 IANS/Siasat
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