Northern Army commander thanks people for help post chopper’s hard-landing
Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Friday visited Machna village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district and thanked the villagers for providing timely assistance to the crew after the hard-landing of a chopper of the security forces on May 4.
The Army helicopter crashed after the hard landing in a forested area in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district 4 following a technical fault, killing a technician and injuring the two pilots on board.
The advanced light helicopter (ALH) Dhruv was on an operational mission and it came down on the banks of a river in Marwah area, cut off from the district headquarters due to heavy snow.
