Notify IAF Aircraft Crashes

[Big Boss]

Notify IAF Aircraft Crashes

Mods/Admin,

Plz make this thread stick.

As we have a sticky thread for PAF crashes and when ever some one posted outside about PAF crashes Mods/admin acts with a lighting fast speed and delete or move that thread in the sticky.

We need to do the same with the IAF too. Same rules for the same PDF for both the forces.

Thanks

 

[TaimiKhan]

Done

But i do hope Indians will keep themselves to this thread, as they have the habit of opening a separate thread for every tiny bit of information, even though there is an already running thread available.

 

[Windjammer]

Army chopper crashes in Siachen, pilot killed

New Delhi, May 23, 2012, (IANS)

An Indian Army officer was killed and another injured Wednesday when the helicopter they were piloting crashed on the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield, during a routine supply sortie, the army headquarters here said.

The two officer-pilots were trying to land the chopper at the Bhim post helipad in northern glacier area at 11.45 a.m. when they lost control of the flying machine and it crashed 400 metres short of the helipad, an officer in the army headquarters said.
"The pilot was killed and the co-pilot was badly injured. The army is evacuating the injured officer to a military hospital," the officer said.

He, however, refused to identify the two pilots immediately.
Army chopper crashes in Siachen, pilot killed

 

[ZABASHO]

An Army aviation pilot died and another was injured after their helicopter crashed in Siachen on Wednesday.

The Cheetah helicopter they were in was on a routine maintenance sortie. After unloading supplies at the Bheem post on the Northern Glacier, the helicopter took off and crashed within minutes.

"The pilot was killed and the co-pilot was badly injured. The Army is taking the injured officer to a military hospital," an officer in the Army headquarters said.


The Cheetah helicopters, bought from France, were inducted into the Indian Army over 40 years ago in 1971.

There are about 120 Cheetahs in service right now. The airframe life of the light-utility helicopter is about 4,500 hours, but most of the Cheetahs that the Army has have logged over 6,000 flying hours. The engine life of the chopper is 1750 hours and most have gone past that too.

In March 2007, Defence Minister AK Antony had told Parliament that the aging Cheetah fleet would be replaced soon. There has been one cancelled tender since then, some fresh trials, but no decision. In these five years, at least 10 pilots have been killed in Cheetah crashes.

Army aviation pilot dies in Siachen chopper crash, another injured

RIP the dead.
Speedy recovery to the injured..
Amen!

 

[sudhir007]

which helicopter is it ????
RIP for solider

 

[third eye]

The Air Force / Avation on both sides seem to be going thru a bad patch.

 

[rashtriya.rifles]

its a cheetah helicopter

 

[nomi007]

 

[nomi007]

 

[farhan_9909]

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damn this thing look like a alligator

 

[nomi007]