{"id":212967,"date":"2023-03-17T00:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212967"},"modified":"2023-03-17T00:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:20:35","slug":"2-pilots-die-after-army-helicopter-crashes-in-w-kameng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/2-pilots-die-after-army-helicopter-crashes-in-w-kameng\/","title":{"rendered":"2 pilots die after army helicopter crashes in W\/Kameng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANGAR, 16 Mar:<\/strong> Two pilots on board a Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Army were killed when it crashed near Mandala in West Kameng district on Thursday morning, a defence spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deceased officers have been identified as Lt Col VVB Reddy and his co-pilot Maj Jayanth A, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defence spokesperson Lt Col Mahendra Rawat said in Guwahati that the helicopter was on an operational sortie from Missamari in Assam&#8217;s Sonitpur district to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The flight encountered &#8220;inconducive weather&#8221; and was returning to Missamari when it crashed, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The helicopter lost contact with the air traffic control at around 9:15 am. Five search parties of the Indian Army, the SSB and the ITBP were immediately launched. The wreckage of the aircraft was found near Banglajaap East village of Mandala,&#8221; Rawat said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A court of inquiry is ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SIC SP Rohit Rajbir Singh said that villagers had found the crashed chopper ablaze in Dirang, and informed district officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Villagers from Bangjalep in Dirang located the chopper at around 12:30 pm,&#8221; Singh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The area has no mobile connectivity and the weather is extremely foggy with visibility as low as five metres, he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANGAR, 16 Mar: Two pilots on board a Cheetah helicopter of the Indian Army were killed when it crashed near Mandala in West Kameng district on Thursday morning, a defence spokesperson said. The deceased officers have been identified as Lt Col VVB Reddy and his co-pilot Maj Jayanth A, he said. Defence spokesperson Lt Col [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}