IAF officer sacked for Feb 2019 'friendly copter attack'
India’s top military court ordered sacking an air force group captain for a missile attack on a friendly Mi-17 helicopter on February 27, 2019
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India’s top military court ordered sacking an air force group captain for a missile attack on a friendly Mi-17 helicopter on February 27, 2019
Group Captain Suman Roy Chowdhury, who was the Chief Operations Officer of Srinagar Air Force Station, has been held guilty on five of the nine charges for a Spyder missile fired on IAF’s own Mi-17 helicopter on February 27, 2019, during the period Pakistan Air Force had targeted some areas in J&K after the Balakot strike.
Six Indian Air Force personnel including two pilots and a civilian lost their lives in the tragic incident, which took place after Pakistani Air Force had launched a counterattack after the Balakot strike.