Army Chopper,With 3 Officers Onboard Crashes in Jammu Kishtwar Area

May 4 2023 A helicopter of the Indian Army, with three officers onboard, crashed in the Kishtwar area of Jammu region in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday morning.

The report was confirmed by the Indian Army. A search and rescue operation has been launched.

Further details awaited.

This comes nearly a month after an Army Aviation Cheetah helicopter flying an operational sortie near Arunachal Pradesh’s Bomdila crashed on March 16 after losing contact with the ATC.

Both pilots – Lt. Col Vinay Banu Reddy and Major Jaynta A – died in the crash.

A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of the accident.