{"id":428953,"date":"2021-08-04T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428953"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:10:49","slug":"army-chopper-crashes-in-ranjit-sagar-dam-massive-search-for-missing-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/army-chopper-crashes-in-ranjit-sagar-dam-massive-search-for-missing-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Army chopper crashes in Ranjit Sagar dam, massive search for missing pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An army helicopter crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam lake in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Kathua on Tuesday morning followed by a massive search operation to trace the missing pilots, a senior police officer said. The dam is located about 30 km from Pathankot. <\/p>\n<p>Kathua\u2019s senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ramesh Kotwal said as per local residents, the crash took place around 10.43 am when the advanced light Dhruv helicopter was on a routine sortie after taking off from Mamun cantonment.Kathua.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have pressed into service divers and motorboats but there is no clue so far,\u201d Kotwal said. In the evening a heavy lift chopper, Chinook was also pressed into search and rescue operation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An army helicopter crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam lake in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Kathua on Tuesday morning followed by a massive search operation to trace the missing pilots, a senior police officer said. The dam is located about 30 km from Pathankot. Kathua\u2019s senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ramesh Kotwal said as per local residents, the crash took place around 10.43 am when the advanced light Dhruv helicopter was on a routine sortie after taking off from Mamun cantonment.Kathua. \u201cWe have pressed into service divers and motorboats but there is no clue so far,\u201d Kotwal said. In the evening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}