From late Lok Sabha speaker GMC Balayogi to late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, helicopter crashes have killed a number of VIPs, mainly politicians, in the country in the last few decades.
On Wednesday, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 other people died in a chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu.
The last such incident that killed senior armed forces personnel occurred on November 22, 1963. Lieutenant General Daulat Singh, Air Vice Marshal E W Pinto, Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, Major General K N D Nanavati, Brigadier S R Oberoi and Flight Lieutenant S S Sodhi were killed when a Chetak helicopter crashed near Poonch district in the Jammu region.
