Lahore: A Pakistan Army helicopter with two personnel on board crashed into the Chenab River in Punjab province on Wednesday while on a routine flight, officials said. A pilot and a trainee pilot were aboard the helicopter when it came down at a spot located 100 km from Lahore. Officials said that the helicopter was on a routine flight from a base in Gujranwala when it lost contact with the...
04:29 PM, May 23, 2012
Ranchi: The condition of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his wife and four others, who suffered injuries when a helicopter carrying them crash-landed at the airport in Rachi, is stable, doctors attending on them said on Thursday. "The condition of the CM and others is stable and improving. We will issue another medical bulletin later in the day," Apollo Hospital Superintendent PD Sinha told in Ranchi. "The doctors are following...
05:22 PM, May 10, 2012
Ranchi: The condition of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his wife and four others, who suffered injuries when a helicopter carrying them crash-landed at the airport in Ranchi, is stable, doctors attending on them said on Thursday. "The condition of the CM and others is stable and improving. We will issue another medical bulletin later in the day," Apollo Hospital Superintendent PD Sinha said. "The doctors are following trauma protocol,"...
09:30 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The helicopter accident in Ranchi in which Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda suffered injuries on Wednesday is likely to have been caused by a radar malfunction, initial investigations show. As per preliminary probe reports from the Jharkhand capital, the radar appeared to have malfunctioned. This had led to problems in the twin-engined helicopter in landing at Kuchai in Saraikela-Kharsawan district, about 100 km from Ranchi. Sources said after...
08:43 PM, May 09, 2012
Ranchi: It was the wisdom of Captain B K Singh, piloting the helicopter which had to crash land after it developed a technical snag, that saved the lives of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his wife Meera and three others travelling with them. The helicopter toppled to its side after crash landing at the Ranchi airport, leaving the Chief Minister with multiple injuries. Also on the chopper were co-pilot Commander...
06:02 PM, May 09, 2012
Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and five others including his wife Meera miraculously survived when their helicopter crashed at Ranchi's Birsa Munda Airport on Wednesday. The helicopter, Agusta AW 109 with twin engines, crash landed at the Birsa Munda Airport at 12:30 pm while trying to make an emergency landing following a technical snag in the rotor. Senior Jharkhand Police officials and the doctors of Apollo Hospital where the...
02:09 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda's helicopter crashed in Ranchi, leaving him injured on Wednesday. This is not the first incident of such a crash involving a VVIP. Following is a timeline of the crashes of the politicians' airplanes and helicopters in the past: - On April 30, 2011, Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorji Khandu, who went missing on a flight from Tawang, died along with four others after their...
01:32 PM, May 09, 2012
Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda's helicopter crashed while making an emergency landing at Ranchi's Birsa Munda Airport on Wednesday. Munda, who was on-board along with five other people when the helicopter crashed, was injured and has been taken to Apollo Hospital. Munda's wife Meera was also on-board the ill-fated helicopter. Jharkhand Director General of Police GS Rath said that Munda was not injured seriously and was safe. However, the...
12:55 PM, May 09, 2012
Mexico City: Thick fog likely caused the helicopter crash on Friday that killed Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake and all seven others on board, the country's transportation minister said on Saturday. An exhaustive investigation is under way, but the initial results indicate the crash was an accident, Communications and Transport Minister Dionisio Perez-Jacome told a news conference. "At this time we have no indications, no evidence ... that would make...
07:53 AM, Nov 13, 2011
Manila: The Philippine military says three air force personnel were killed when a helicopter carrying supplies to troops fighting militants on a southern island crashed after its engine failed. Regional military spokesman Lt Col Randolph Cabangbang says the Vietnam War-vintage UH-1H Huey helicopter lost engine power as it approached a military camp in Patikul township on Jolo island on Saturday. The helicopter hit the ground hard and rolled down a...
12:53 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Rio de Janerio: A helicopter belonging to Brazil's oil and gas company Petrobras has disappeared with four people onboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, the company said. Petrobras said the helicopter was returning from a drilling platform on the Atlantic shelf when contact with the pilot was lost some 100 km from the coast. Poor weather conditions may be to blame as there were...
08:26 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Jakarta: A helicopter chartered by an Australian mining company slammed into a mountain in eastern Indonesia, killing all 10 passengers and crew, the head of the search and rescue team said Thursday. The Bell 412 - carrying two Australians, two South Africans and six Indonesians - lost contact with authorities Wednesday afternoon minutes after takeoff from the city of Manado on Sulawesi island, said Lucky Pondaag, an airport spokesman. It...
12:08 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Jaipur: A BSF team comprising of technical experts on saturday visited the site in Sirohi district in Rajasthan to probe the helicopter crash that left four people dead. The mishap took place on Friday when the helicopter crashed in the hills of village Fatehpura near Abu Road here in the Sirohi district, killing all the four occupants, including the pilot. "A BSF team headed by an IG rank official reached...
08:37 PM, May 14, 2011
Sirohi (Rajasthan): A Pawan Hans helicopter of the Border Security Force crashed in Sirohi district of Rajasthan on Friday killing the pilot and three others. Sirohi District Collector Ram Meena said that the helicopter crashed at 3 pm near Bahadurpura village. A team of officials from Mount Abu reached the crash site and all the bodies, which are badly burnt, have been recovered. According to unconfirmed information received from the...
06:46 PM, May 13, 2011
Tawang: Thousands of people bid a tearful adieu to former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu whose mortal remains were consigned to flames on Tuesday, 10 days after his death in a helicopter crash. Over 7000 people gathered at the cremation ground at Shebdung near his native village in Tawang district on Tuesday morning to pay their last respect to their 'Laughing Buddha', as he was fondly called. The last...
01:35 PM, May 10, 2011
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