Nurturing pilots and maintaining aircrafts play a crucial role in the strength of a country's defence systems. Hence, it's a huge setback when an aircraft crashes and is also an irrecoverable loss for the families of the brave pilots.
Nurturing pilots and maintaining aircrafts play a crucial role in the strength of a country's defence systems. Hence, it's a huge setback when an aircraft crashes and is also an irrecoverable loss for the families of the brave pilots.
The Indian Air Force has suffered several crashes over the years, with the MiG jets being the culprits in most of these cases. The Indian Navy too has see some such crashes in the past.
Here is a list of the incidents that have cost the Indian Navy over the years.
1. May 6, 2005 - A Chetak helicopter crashed near Chennai killing all three crew members. According to police reports, the helicopter's rotor blades had developed a snag.
2. August 19, 2005 - A Kamov-28, Navy's Submarine hunter helicopter crashed near Belgaum in Karnataka. Four out of six personnel onboard were killed in the crash. Naval officer Sandeep Singh was found after four days and another crew member Beant Singh went missing.
3. November 11, 2006 - Five naval officers miraculously survived after crash landing in a paddy field.
4. March 25, 2009 - Naval Chopper crash landed into the Arabian Sea near the Goa shores. Three people on the aircraft survived the crash. It was again a Kamov-28 chopper used in anti-submarine warfare.
5. June 2, 2010 - On a routine training, a Chetak Helicopter crashed near Anakapalli. Three crew members miraculously escaped but a sailor on board, Krishna Kumar, was not so fortunate when the chopper touched a high tension wire as it was crashing into the river.
6. March 5, 2013 - Another Chetak crashed in the sea off INS Dega, Vishakhapatnam. The crash killed commander Krishna Kumar.
7. March 24, 2015 - A Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft crashed at around 11 pm in the night. Pilot Cdr Nikhil Joshi has been rescued while the other two on-board are still missing.
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