Two pilots were killed when an Army helicopter crash-landed in a dense forest near Patnitop in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n
“Today, during a training sortie in Patnitop area, Indian Army’s Cheetah helicopter crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in the district,” a Jammu-based defence spokesman said.<\/p>\n
He said that two pilots — Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput — were injured in the incident and evacuated to the nearest medical facility but they succumbed later.<\/p>\n
Army Commander, Northern Command, Lt Gen Y K Joshi paid rich tributes to the slain officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two pilots were killed when an Army helicopter crash-landed in a dense forest near Patnitop in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said. “Today, during a training sortie in Patnitop area, Indian Army’s Cheetah helicopter crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in the district,” a Jammu-based defence spokesman said. He said that two pilots — Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput — were injured in the incident and evacuated to the nearest medical facility but they succumbed later. Army Commander, Northern Command, Lt Gen Y K Joshi paid rich tributes to the slain officers.<\/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":[135,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437370","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=437370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}