{"id":531381,"date":"2022-10-25T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=531381"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T04:45:38","slug":"army-helicopter-sent-distress-call-to-atc-before-crash-in-arunachal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/army-helicopter-sent-distress-call-to-atc-before-crash-in-arunachal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Army helicopter sent distress call to ATC before crash in Arunachal: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before it went down in the mountainous region of Migging in Arunachal Pradesh, the Army&#8217;s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) sent a distress call to the air traffic control suggesting a technical failure, military sources said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mortal remains of four personnel out of five on board the Weapon System Integrated (WSI) version of the indigenously-built helicopter were retrieved by rescue teams on Friday evening, hours after the aircraft crashed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to the crash, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) received a May Day call suggesting a technical or mechanical failure,&#8221; said a source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;May Day&#8217; call refers to distress signal conveyed to an aircraft crew to the ATC or ground staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before it went down in the mountainous region of Migging in Arunachal Pradesh, the Army&#8217;s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) sent a distress call to the air traffic control suggesting a technical failure, military sources said on Saturday. Mortal remains of four personnel out of five on board the Weapon System Integrated (WSI) version of the indigenously-built helicopter were retrieved by rescue teams on Friday evening, hours after the aircraft crashed. &#8220;Prior to the crash, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) received a May Day call suggesting a technical or mechanical failure,&#8221; said a source. &#8216;May Day&#8217; call refers to distress signal [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531381","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=531381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}