Three individuals have been killed as a Coast Guard helicopter crashed in the Indian state Gujarat, a media report said on Monday.
The Times of India reported: “The ALH Mark-III chopper was returning from a routine training sortie when it developed some technical snag while landing at the Coast Guard Air Enclave in Porbandar, and crashed.”
It said: “The two pilots – Commandant Saurabh and Deputy Commandant SK Yadav – and air crew diver Manoj Pradhan Navik were pulled out of the burning helicopter and rushed to a govt hospital.
“But they succumbed to their injuries. A board of inquiry will investigate the reasons leading to the crash,” one official said.
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