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  • Wreckage of Missing Pawan Hans Helicopter Found in Arunachal Pradesh

    The wreckage of Pawan Hans helicopter, which went missing last week, has been found in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district. "The Air Force has confirmed that the wreckage of the missing helicopter has been found 12 km south of Khonsa, the headquarters of Tirap district," Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said. The Dauphin VT-PHK helicopter owned by Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd took off from Khonsa for Longding last week with a government official and two pilots and lost communication with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) five minutes after departure. The helicopter was on a routine sortie to Longding and was to return to Mohanbari airport in Assam's Dibrugarh city when the contact was lost. The ATC received the last signal from the chopper near Deomali in Tirap, officials said. A massive search operation was launched to trace the missing chopper. Pawan Hans Helicopter Services Limited (PHHL) has been operating chopper services across Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura and daily Guwahati-Tawang services for over 15 years. It is one of the major lifelines in landlocked Arunachal Pradesh.



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    The Union Minister said that Air Force chopper is hovering over the area where the wreckage has been found.

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      The fate of the three occupants, including a young IAS officer Kamalesh Joshi, of the chopper is yet to be known.The massive search operation was launched to locate the chopper which went missing after taking off from Khonsa in Arunachal Pradesh's.

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