Helicopter crashes with India military chief on board

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NEW DELHI: A helicopter carrying India\u0027s defence chief General Bipin Rawat crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday (Dec 8), the air force said. The 63-year-old chief of defence staff was travelling in a Russian-made Mi-17V5 chopper that \u0022met with an accident today near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu\u0022

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NEW DELHI: A helicopter carrying India's defence chief General Bipin Rawat crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday , the air force said.

Rawat is India's first chief of defence staff, a position that the Indian government established in 2019, and is seen as close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Videos broadcast on Indian news channels showed a fiery wreck at the crash site in a dense forested area near the college in Nilgiris district.

Rawat comes from a military family with several generations having served in the Indian armed forces.

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Hope he & family as well as everyone on board be alive & well cared for.

He’s not India’s military chief. He’s CDS Chief of defence Staff.

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