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| Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu's chopper yet to be found
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| INDIA
, 2-May-2011
4:35:17 AM |
| Nearly 48 hours after a helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four other people went missing, the chopper is yet to be found
Massive search operations are on to locate the missing Pawan Hans AS350 B-3 helicopter that had taken off from Tawang at 9.50 am on Saturday. It lost communication with the ground after it flew past the Sela Pass area about 20 to 25 minutes later.
A two-member high-level Central team, including Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) V Narayanswamy and Union Minister Mukul Wasnik are in Itanagar to take stock of the situation and oversee the search operations. (Watch: No news on Khandu yet, says Narayanswamy)
Around 30 columns of the Indian Army comprising 2,400 personnel have been sent to different locations along the Indo-Bhutan border as part of ground search operation. Six ITBP teams with 25 personnel are also helping in the search. Inclement weather is however, affecting the aerial searches
The crisis management group in Arunachal has been told by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that it may provide some clues today, as satellite images from RISAT-2 are expected, and will be analysed.
"There is no confirmation or news about the helicopter. There has been no direct contact with any of the five people on board and we really don't know any details as of now," Arunachal MP Takam Sanjay said. "The fact of the matter is we don't know yet where the helicopter is," he added.
The helicopter was scheduled to land in Itanagar at 11.30 am on Saturday. Several media reports on Saturday afternoon quoted Arunachal Pradesh Governor Gen (retd) JJ Singh and the state Chief Secretary and said that the helicopter had landed safely somewhere in eastern Bhutan adjoining Tawang district and that the same helicopter was flying back to Guwahati with the Chief Minister on board.
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