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In petition to President Ram Nath Kovind, the father of Captain Jayant Joshi said his son, whose seat belt was found open, could have floated if he had been provided a life jacket while flying over the Ranjit Singh Dam reservoir in Jammu.
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.
Pathankot, October 17 The body of Captain Jayant Joshi (26), the co-pilot of an Army helicopter that had crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam on August 3, has finally been recovered after nearly a two-a
The body of the second pilot killed in a helicopter crash on August 3 was on Sunday recovered from the Ranjit Sagar Lake on the borders of J&K and Punjab, a defence statement said."Persistent efforts by Indian Army and Navy for 75 days ...