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NEW DELHI: A sailor was killed on Saturday in an accident involving a Chetak helicopter throughout its floor taxi upkeep on the naval air station INS Garuda at Kochi.
A board of inquiry has been ordered to probe the accident through which the sailor, main air mechanic Yogendra Singh, was killed at round 2 pm on the runway at INS Garuda, which is adjoining to the Southern Naval Commandheadquarters at Kochi.“The accident befell on the bottom… the chopper was not flying,” an officer mentioned.
The armed forces have been demanding new mild utility helicopters to interchange their outdated Cheetah/Chetak choppers, which quantity round 350, for nearly twenty years now. Very similar to the MiG-21 supersonic fighters, the Cheetah/Chetak helicopters are of the design classic of the Nineteen Sixties, lack fashionable avionics and in-built security mechanisms, as reported by TOI earlier.
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