New Delhi, October 09, 2022 (PPI-OT):Days after Indian army’s Lt Col Saurabh Yadav died in an Indian Army aviation helicopter crash in Indian state Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang, the Indian Army Wives’ Agitation Group has written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the Cheetah and Chetak series of copters “flying coffins”. Lt Col Yadav was flying a Cheetah when it crashed on October 5 and his co-pilot was injured.
The Cheetah choppers are based on a 1950s design and several attempts to induct their replacement have failed to fructify over the past 15 years. These copters, weighing over 3.5 tonnes, fall in the light utility helicopter (LUH) class. These are the lightest copters in the Army and IAF fleet.
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