Seven deaths in helicopter crash in India
According to media reports, all seven people died on board when a helicopter crashed in northern India.
The helicopter with Hindu pilgrims on board had crashed on a steep slope on a ten -minute flight, the broadcaster NDTV and other Indian media reported to the authority for the development of civil aviation in the affected state of Uttarakhand. At the time of the accident in the early morning (local time), poor visibility had been ruled.
The helicopter in India had been on the road from Kedarnath to Guptkashi. Kedarnath is located in the southern foothills of the Himalaya and is considered an important place of pilgrimage in Hinduism.
Prime Minister: helicopter services should be safer
According to his office, the head of government of the Indian Union State, Pushkar Singh Dhami, instructed the authorities to make the operation of helicopter services more secure in view of the crash and other incidents with helicopters.
Like a miracle: passenger survives plane crash in India
According to Indian media, six people lost their lives in Uttarakhand in early May in a helicopter crash in early May. At the beginning of this month, a helicopter had to make an emergency landing where the pilot was injured.
Last Thursday, 241 people died on board when a large -scale aircraft of the company Air India on a residential area in the western state of Gujarat. A passenger survived. According to reports from the newspaper « Hindustan Times » and other Indian media, around 30 people were killed on the ground. So far, no official number of victims have been mentioned by the government.
A helicopter crashes with tourists in front of Athens
A helicopter also crashed in Greece, in front of Athens. The five inmates survived with minor injuries, as reported by the Greek Rundfunk Ertnews. According to the report, the pilot could see in good time that the helicopter was about to crash. Because he was not very high from the landing site, he asked the four tourists from the USA to jump off.
Then he maneuvered the helicopter a few meters away and crashed into the sea from a small height. The pilot was saved by boats in the Athenian suburb of Vouliagmeni, as reported by Greek broadcasting.
