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| Will make sure job is done: Air Chief NAK Browne to NDTV
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| INDIA
, 26-June-2013
4:37:44 AM |
| Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne spoke to NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt in Uttarakhand about the helicopter crash on Tuesday afternoon in which 20 people died, and his troops' heroic determination to continue their rescue mission.
Here is the full transcript of the interview:
NDTV: Sir what is the update you can give us? Have all the bodies at this moment been recovered?
Air Chief: This accident took place last afternoon around 2 o' clock close to Gaurikund while this chopper was returning from Badrinath and there were actually three helicopters. One was in the lead by about 10 minutes ahead and there was one which was following about 10 minutes behind, so it's not that he was operating alone in that area. He was actually together with three aircraft and when this happened we sent a team sometime in the evening to slither down; certain Garud forces, commandos, seven of them, and they have reported to us that there are no survivors in this group. There were 20 people on board, five from the Air Force, which is part of the crew, 9 from the NDRF, and six from the ITBP, a total of 20.
NDTV: Sir there is such a thing as taking too many risks? Is there any sense that you will now review the number of risks heroically that your forces have been taking to save lives? Is there a sense that the envelope of safety was pushed?
Air Chief: Well all that I would say is that in the mountains, specially during the monsoon weather, weather is always an issue, but at this point of time we are not quite sure whether it was weather or whether it was a technical problem. Fortunately we have recovered the Cockpit Voice Recorder, the Flight Data Recorder and I think in a few days time we will get to know absolutely as to what exactly happened, so I think it will be a little premature for me to comment on that part.
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