Pawan Hans Helicopter Crashes
MUMBAI: Two pilots are
missing after a Pawan Hans helicopter crashed off the coast of Mumbai on
Wednesday 4th November evening. There were no passengers on board the
helicopter when the accident took place.
The chopper crashed at around 7:30 pm while carrying out night landing practice at Bombay High, a mid-sea oil rig run by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India (ONGC). ONGC hires Pawan Hans helicopters to ferry its officials from Mumbai to its offshore oilfield.
The 14-seater VTPWF Dauphin aircraft of 2001-make took off from the ONGC installation at 7:12 PM and contact with it was lost eight minutes later, a top official of the state-run Pawan Hans said.
The Navy and Coast Guard, who have launched search and rescue operations, have sighted a door of the aircraft, according to reports from Press Trust of India.
The chopper crashed at around 7:30 pm while carrying out night landing practice at Bombay High, a mid-sea oil rig run by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India (ONGC). ONGC hires Pawan Hans helicopters to ferry its officials from Mumbai to its offshore oilfield.
The 14-seater VTPWF Dauphin aircraft of 2001-make took off from the ONGC installation at 7:12 PM and contact with it was lost eight minutes later, a top official of the state-run Pawan Hans said.
The Navy and Coast Guard, who have launched search and rescue operations, have sighted a door of the aircraft, according to reports from Press Trust of India.
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