Indian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in Gujarat throughout coaching, 3 killed

Three crew members had been killed after a helicopter of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) crashed and caught hearth at an airport on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Porbandar metropolis, police mentioned.

The incident passed off at 12.10 pm when the ICG’s Superior Gentle Helicopter (ALH), which was getting back from a routine sortie, crashed whereas attempting to land on the runway of the Coast Guard airport, Porbandar Superintendent of Police Bhagirathsinh Jadeja mentioned.

The chopper crashed close to the runway and caught hearth. The blaze was later introduced below management with the assistance of a hearth tender, he mentioned.

The three crew members onboard had been introduced out of the chopper and rushed to a hospital in Porbandar in a severely burnt situation, he mentioned.

“Whereas two of them had been declared introduced lifeless, one was alive when dropped at the hospital and died later,” Kamala Baug police station’s inspector Rajesh Kanmiya mentioned.

Their identities weren’t but identified, he mentioned.

The incident comes 4 months after the ICG’s ALH MK-III helicopter crashed into the Arabian Sea off Porbandar on September 2 final 12 months, killing three crew members.

The our bodies of its pilot and a diver had been recovered quickly after the incident, whereas the physique of the third crew member was discovered after greater than a month.