The Chhattisgarh authorities and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have initiated investigations into the crash of a helicopter at Raipur’s Swami Vivekanand Airport on Thursday evening which killed each pilots. The state government-owned chopper, nevertheless, had been courting controversies for years.
The AgustaWestland helicopter purchased by the erstwhile BJP authorities led by Raman Singh in 2007 had been going through technical issues for a number of years. It was purchased at a hiked value, a matter which the opposition Congress had raised in court docket on the time.
However, after coming to energy, the Congress authorities had been utilizing the helicopter, principally for the Chief Minister. Following security issues over the chopper, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had borrowed one other helicopter for his present tour of constituencies.
On Thursday evening, the helicopter was piloted by Captain GK Panda, who had been serving the state since 2010. He was accompanied by evening flying coaching skilled Captain AK Shrivastava who had flown from Delhi to Raipur. Captain Shrivastava was a relative of politician Adarsh Shastri, who’s the grandson of late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. The households of each pilots have reached Raipur to say custody of their our bodies.
The autopsy of the pilots shall be carried out within the presence of consultants from the DGCA, sources mentioned, including that the officers will arrive afterward Friday. The black box of the helicopter, which has been retrieved from the wreckage, may even be examined by DGCA consultants to find out the sequence of occasions within the last minutes earlier than the crash.
