Tag: Helicopter Crash

Fog and poor visibility are said to be the reason for the crash.

South Asian peacekeepers dominate the 14,000-strong military segment of the operation with 1,974 from Pakistan, 1,888 from India, 1,634 from Bangladesh and 936 from Nepal.

CDS General Bipin Rawat and 12 others passed away in an unfortunate chopper crash in Tamil Nadu on Dec 8, 2021.

A military helicopter carrying Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 13 other Defence officials crashed in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on Wednesday.

Mumbai/Bhubaneswar: Pilot Prafulla Kumar Mishra, hailing from Bhubaneswar, killed in a crash of a private helicopter at an isolated spot in the Mumbai suburb Goregaon on Sunday. Mishra, the 52-year-old retired pilot of Indian Army, was declared dead at the hospital. He was working as a Chief Pilot and the COO at Aman Aviation Pvt […]

Kabul: At least 25 people, including senior government and Army officials, were killed when a military helicopter crashed due to bad weather in the region bordering Afghanistan’s Farah and Herat provinces on Wednesday, authorities said. “The 25 people on board were martyred. Among them were Farah provincial council chief Farid Bakhtawar; Jamila Amini, the deputy […]

Moscow: Eighteen people were killed in a helicopter crash on Saturday in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, authorities said. “At 10.20 a.m., an Mi-8 helicopter performed a hard landing in Turukhansk district, 2 km from the village of Igarka,” Xinhua news agency quoted a statement from the region’s emergency services. The crash was possibly due to technical […]

Los Angeles: Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant was one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas of southern California on Sunday. “It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Kobe Bryant and four others in a helicopter crash in Calabasas,” the City of Calabasas confirmed on its official […]