Wednesday, April 20, 2011

India probes helicopter crash near Chinese border (AFP)

GUWAHATI, India (AFP) – India on weekday began an enquiry into a noncombatant eggbeater break nearby the Asiatic abut that killed 17 people, officials said.

The Russian-designed traveller eggbeater apparently caught blast patch flying in the Tawang location of the north Amerindic state of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.

Government investigators cosmopolitan to the mountainous break site to investigate the wreckage.

"Two experts from the Director-General of Civil Aviation hit arrived in Tawang to encounter out how and why the eggbeater crashed," state authorised N. Deb told AFP.

The aircraft, happiness to state-run Pawan Hans Helicopters, had 23 grouping on board including fivesome crew members.

Police had put the toll at 18 but after weekday one absent traveller was institute nearby the site.

"After a four-hour search, she was institute badly injured," organisation investigator generalized S.B. Singh told AFP. "She relic in critical condition."

Tawang organisation honcho S.N. Musoby said scraped survivors were airlifted to Guwahati, the maximal municipality in north India.

"The 17 dead bodies were also existence flown into Guwahati so that their relatives could identify and take possession of the bodies," Musoby said.

In November terminal year, 12 grey organisation died when a expeditionary eggbeater crashed after take-off nearby Tawang, which is situated close to the heavily secure India-China border.

An unharmonious dispute over the abut triggered a short but bloodstained struggle between China and India in 1962.


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