Two pilots of the Indian Army's Aviation Wing succumbed to their injuries after their Cheetah helicopter crashed in Shivgarh Dhar area near Patnitop tourist resort in Udhampur district possibly due to bad weather on Tuesday.
Locals who evacuated the pilots, along with the Jammu & Kashmir Police rushed the injured pilots to a nearby motorable road from where they were shifted to a military hospital.
According to a Jammu-based Defence PRO, Lt Col Devender Anand, "During a training sortie in Patnitop area on Tuesday, Indian Army Cheetah Helicopter crash-landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in Udhampur district. Both the pilots were critically injured during helicopter crash landing, evacuated to the nearest medical facility but later succumbed to their injuries".
The officers who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty have been identified as Major Rohit Kumar and Major Anuj Rajput.