Two pilots killed after Army helicopter crash lands in Jammu & Kashmir’s Udhampur

SRINAGAR: Two Army pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed in a forest area in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. Defence spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand said during a training sortie in Patnitop, the Army’s Cheetah helicopter crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area.

Locals and armymen rushed to the spot and pulled out the pilots from the wreckage of the helicopter. Policemen also joined the rescue operation. The two pilots, Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput, were critically injured and were evacuated to the nearby military hospital, but succumbed later.