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He took off from Sulur in the Mi-17V5 chopper at around 1148 am for Wellington.The chopper crashed at around 1222 pm.Air Marshal Singh, currently heading the Bengaluru-headquartered Training Command of the IAF, is known to be one of the best available air crash investigators in the country.
CDS Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 12 defence personnel lost their lives in the crash involving the Mi-17V5 chopper flown by the commanding officer of the 109 helicopter unit Wg Cdr Prithvi Singh Chauhan.
As many as four accidents of Mi-17V5 helicopters of IAF have taken place in the last 5 years, Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Friday.
Group Captain Varun Singh, the sole survivor of the Mi-17V5 military helicopter crash in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last week, has succumbed to his injuries, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Wednesday.
Social media users are linking the crash, that killed General Bipin Rawat, to either an attack by insurgents, or internal sabotage, or even a communal attack.