1 pilot killed in army chopper crash in north Kashmir
An Army helicopter on its way to pick up sick BSF personnel crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Gurez Sector on Friday, killing its co-pilot and critically injuring the pilot, officials said.
It crashed around 11:30 am with officials saying that it drifted away while descending and tumbled into a ‘nallah’ flowing nearby.
The ‘Cheetah’ helicopter was undertaking a rescue sortie to evacuate a sick Border Security Force (BSF) jawan deployed in the forward area in the mountainous region.
“An Army Cheetah helicopter crashed in the Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipora district this afternoon while on a routine mission to evacuate an ailing soldier from a forward post,” Srinagar-based defence spokesman Col Emron Musavi said.
