: Bipin Rawat’s death: IAF has ordered tri-service inquiry into chopper crash, Rajnath Singh tells LS #IndiaNEWS Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday told Parliament that the Indian Air

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Bipin Rawat’s death: IAF has ordered tri-service inquiry into chopper crash, Rajnath Singh tells LS #IndiaNEWS
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday told Parliament that the Indian Air Force has ordered a tri-service inquiry into the helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others died a day ago, reported ANI. Rawat along with others had died after an Indian Air Force Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed near Coonoor town in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris district on Wednesday. Rawat was 63.In the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Singh said that the investigation will be led by Air Marshal Manavendra Singh, who is a helicopter pilot himself. “The inquiry team reached Wellington yesterday [Wednesday] itself and started the investigation,� he said. Singh also said that all effort were being made to save Group Captain Varun Singh, who is the only survivor of the crash. The defence minister said that the group captain was on life support at Military Hospital, Wellington.The defence minister said that Rawat’s body has been brought to Delhi and cremation will be held on Friday. He also said that the flight data recorder of the helicopter has been recovered.Recounting the incident, Singh said that the helicopter in which Rawat was travelling was supposed to land at Wellington at 12.15 pm but the contact with the chopper was lost at 12.08 pm.“Subsequently, few locals...Read more

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