Tawang chopper crash: Haryana town mourns demise of a hero

A pall of gloom has descended at Kosli town after the news of the demise of Flight Lieutenant Akash Yadav, who died in yesterday's helicopter crash near Tawang.

Yadav, who was among those killed in the Mi-17 chopper crash in Arunachal Pradesh, was a resident of Mohalla Mallupura in Rewari town.

His wife Neha Jaiswal, too, is a flight lieutenant.

Yadav's father Satbir Singh Yadav, grandfather Surat Singh Yadav, both of whom are ex-servicemen, and his mother Sunita Devi were in a deep shock after receiving the tragic news.

Yadav, who had joined the Indian Air Force in 2003, was commissioned as a flight lieutenant in 2006.

The chopper was on regular air maintenance sortie from Tawang army base, about 9,000 feet above sea level, to Guwahati when the accident took place.

Eleven air force personnel and an army lieutenant colonel were killed when the air force helicopter crashed at Bomdir, about 7km from Tawang, near the China frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.