Four people were killed after a helicopter belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) made a controlled emergency landing at sea near the Sagar Kiran oil rig in Bombay High, located about 60 nautical miles west of Mumbai, on Tuesday morning.
All nine people on-board — two pilots, six ONGC employees and one employee of the public sector oil major’s contractor were safely rescued in an operation that involved the Indian Coast Guard and Indian Navy ships and choppers and went on for nearly two hours. Four of those rescued, however, succumbed after they were shifted to a private hospital in Mumbai.
The deceased have been identified as Mukesh Patel, Vijay Mandloi, Satyambad Patra and Sanju Francis.
