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Four Army personnel, including two pilots, were killed in a helicopter crash in Upper Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Friday morning, a defence official said.

At least five Army pilots have lost their lives in air crashes in the past six months. A helicopter that crashed on Friday in the Gurez sector of Kashmir, killing its pilot Major Sankalp Yadav and critically injuring the co-pilot, was the third fatal crash for the Army Aviation Corps since September

The father of an Army Aviation pilot who died in a crash in Jammu and Kashmir last year has written to President Ram Nath Kovind, requesting him to make it mandatory for all army pilots to undergo underwater survival training and to equip them with essential life-saving gears. Harish Chander Joshi's son Capt Jayant Joshi of 254 Squadron of Army Aviation had died in a fatal

On the fateful morning of August 3, an Army aviation helicopter on a routine sortie crash-landed in Ranjit Sagar Dam near the J&K and Punjab border. It took the Armed forces nearly 76 days to recover the mortal remains of the pilots on-board who died on duty.

The Army said the body was found from the lake bed; recovery operation went on for over 600 hours, involved 300 dives by Navy divers.