Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat died on 8/12/2021 after an Air Force helicopter carrying him and 13 others crashed shortly after take-off in Coonoor Tamil Nadu.
General Rawat's wife Madhulika Rawat was killed.
The Russian-made Mi-17 V5 chopper crashed shortly after taking off from the Air Force base in Sulur, Coimbatore, for Wellington in the Nilgiri Hills.
The chopper was already on its way down and would have landed in about 10 minutes. According to news agency AFP, it fell down around 10 kilometres from the nearest road, forcing emergency responders to hike to the accident site.
Around 12.20 p.m., reports of the crash surfaced.
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