New Delhi: CDS Bipin Rawat was found alive after Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday (December 8).
According to reports, it is said that India’s first CDS died on his way to hospital. He was found burnt.
The rescuer said the late CDS reveled his name when while he was being evacuated from the wreckage of the IAF helicopter.
The fireman claimed that when CDS Rawat was pulled out of the wreckage of the Mi-17V5 helicopter, he told his name and died on his way to the hospital, a report published in ToI stated.
तमिलनाडु: कुन्नूर में दुर्घटनाग्रस्त हुए वायुसेना के MI17-V5 हेलिकॉप्टर के हादसे से पहले का वीडियो हो रहा वायरल..वीडियो की पुष्टि नहीं की जा सकती pic.twitter.com/mjG1QCcqec
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Locals who were present at the crash site said that they saw 12 bodies scattered near the site of the accident.
The Coonoor helicopter crash claimed the lives of 13 people including the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat.
Meanwile, IAF Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the military chopper crash is on life support in Military Hospital at Wellington.
Reports also said that the incident took place when General Rawat was travelling from Sulur to Wellington to deliver a speech at the Wellington Staff college at 2.30 pm.
तमिलनाडु: कुन्नूर में वायुसेना का हेलिकॉप्टर क्रैश, सीडीएस बिपिन रावत की मौजूदगी का जताया जा रहा अंदेशा.. pic.twitter.com/LJqGjw0f5c
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General Rawat, India’s first CDS, was on a visit to the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington to address the faculty and student officers of the Staff Course when his chopper crashed.
The Indian Air Force has ordered an inquiry into the accident.
General Rawat was appointed as India’s first Chief of Defense Staff on December 31, 2019. He previously served as Chief of the Army Staff from January 2017 to December 2019. He was commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1978.
