Kochi: Chetak helicopter crashes at the naval air station in Kochi | Indian Navy | Oneindia News
A tragic incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when a Chetak helicopter crashed, resulting in the loss of a navy official's life. The helicopter crashed at the runway of the naval air station, INS Garuda in Kochi soon after the lift-off.
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00:00 A tragic incident occurred on Saturday afternoon when a Chetak helicopter crashed, resulting
00:07 in the loss of a Navy officer's life, according to some reports.
00:10 The helicopter crashed at the runway of the Naval Air Station INS Garuda in Kochi soon
00:14 after the liftoff.
00:16 The Chetak chopper reported the crash during routine training around 2.30 pm.
00:21 According to the reports, which claimed that a Naval officer was killed in the crash, the
00:24 Naval officer who was on the runway was killed after being hit by the rotor blades of the
00:28 chopper.
00:29 A Chetak helicopter met with a ground accident today during maintenance taxi checks at INS
00:34 Garuda, Kochi, resulting in the unfortunate loss of life of one ground crew.
00:38 "A board of inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause of the accident," the
00:42 Indian Navy said in an official statement.
00:44 The mishap took place on the INS Garuda runway at the Navy headquarters in Kochi.
00:48 Initial inputs indicated that two people, including the pilot of the chopper, sustained
00:51 injuries in the accident.
00:52 They are undergoing treatment at Sanjeevani Hospital at the Naval headquarters.
00:57 The INS Garuda is adjacent to INS Venduruthi and the headquarters of Southern Naval Command.
01:02 INS Garuda is a major naval training centre as well as an operational base.
01:06 It has two intersecting runways, allowing almost all operational aircraft to land and
01:10 take off.
01:11 The INS Garuda has remained a strategic operating station for the Indian Navy, with several training
01:15 schools, intelligence centres, maintenance and repair facilities, and experimental stations
01:19 based down south.
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