After six days of search, the rescue teams have recovered some of the broken parts of the Pawan Hans chopper that went missing from the skies in Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh last week.
Changlang Deputy Commissioner C Yadav said this on Monday while adding that although the blades and some outer parts of the chopper were recovered from Sanliam, about 12 kms away from Khonsa the search is on for other parts as well as for its passengers.
The Dauphin chopper run by the Pawan Hans went missing on August 4 morning with three persons aboard including Tirap deputy commissioner Kamlesh Kumar Joshi, one pilot and a crew member.
The chopper was on a routine sortie and it was on its way from Khonsa in Tirap district to longding and was supposed to return to the Mohanbari airport in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. The Air Traffic Control (ATC) received the last signal from the chopper at Deomali.
Although the Arunachal Pradesh Government had launched a rescue operation immediately nothing was known till Monday morning. While Indian Air Force choppers were conducting aerial search, the State Government had also sent ground search teams including locals, Army, police and Assam Rifles into the forests to look for the missing chopper and the three boarders. Joshi’s wife and brother have also arrived in Khonsa and are waiting eagerly to get some details for the missing chopper and well as for Joshi and other boarders.