With the recovery of the fifth body the death toll in the Army helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh rose to five. Prior to the crash, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) had received a MAY DAY call suggesting a technical or mechanical failure.
Mayday is an emergency procedure used as a distress signal.The advanced light helicopter (ALH), carrying five Army personnel including two pilots, was on regular sorties when it crashed at 10.43 am on Friday near Migging, around 25 km south of Tuting. Four bodies were recovered on Friday.
