{"id":455122,"date":"2021-12-09T10:21:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T04:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455122"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T05:44:58","slug":"general-bipin-rawat-dies-in-chopper-crash-helicopter-accidents-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/general-bipin-rawat-dies-in-chopper-crash-helicopter-accidents-over-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"General Bipin Rawat dies in chopper crash: Helicopter accidents over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others were killed in a chopper crash near Ooty in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The chopper was heading to the Wellington defence establishment.<\/p>\n<p>While the last time a chopper crash involving a senior Army officer was in 1993, similar accidents have led to the deaths of several political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>May 7, 1993<\/p>\n<p>An Indian military helicopter crashed in Bhutan, killing all eight officers on board. The victims included the army commander of India\u2019s eastern region, Lt. Gen. Jamil Mehmood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others were killed in a chopper crash near Ooty in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. The chopper was heading to the Wellington defence establishment. While the last time a chopper crash involving a senior Army officer was in 1993, similar accidents have led to the deaths of several political leaders. May 7, 1993 An Indian military helicopter crashed in Bhutan, killing all eight officers on board. The victims included the army commander of India\u2019s eastern region, Lt. Gen. Jamil Mehmood.<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455122","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=455122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}