Sulur control room lost contact with IAF chopper at 12.08pm: Rajnath Singh in his statement in Parliament

Defence minister Rajnath Singh issued a statement in the Lok Sabha on Thursday on the IAF chopper crash that killed 13 including chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat. Recounting the timeline of the fatal crash, the defence minister said the chopper started at 11.48am from Sulur and was supposed to reach the Wellington airbase at 12.15pm. At around 12.08pm, the Sulur base control room lost contact with the chopper. It was a scheduled visit, the defence minister said.

After the crash, local people reached the spot seeing fire and started rescue work. The local administration pressed into the rescue work.