{"id":18895,"date":"2022-03-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=18895"},"modified":"2022-03-13T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T06:59:50","slug":"army-pilot-dies-in-chopper-crash-near-line-of-control-co-pilot-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/army-pilot-dies-in-chopper-crash-near-line-of-control-co-pilot-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Co- Pilot Died in Chopper Crash Near Line Of Control, Pilot Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">After their Cheetah helicopter crashed along the <strong>Line of Control or LoC in north Kashmir&#8217;s Gurez<\/strong> sector today, an army pilot was killed and his co-pilot was badly injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the <strong>chopper crashed<\/strong> in the Tulial region of Gurez sector, it was on its way to pick up a <strong>paramilitary<\/strong> soldier and transport him to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clguca5g_chopper-crash_625x300_11_March_22.jpg\" alt=\"Cheetah helicopter crashed along the LoC in Kashmir's Gurez sector today, an army pilot was killed and his co-pilot was badly injured.\" class=\"wp-image-18897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clguca5g_chopper-crash_625x300_11_March_22.jpg 650w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clguca5g_chopper-crash_625x300_11_March_22-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/clguca5g_chopper-crash_625x300_11_March_22-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<strong>At Gujran, Baraub, the helicopter lost touch with the forward post.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong> The Indian Army promptly initiated a foot search effort, as well as search and rescue helicopters, which were put into service. <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>The wreckage of the crashed helicopter was discovered in the snow-covered Gujran Nallah area of Bandipora in North Kashmir &#8220;<\/strong>Srinagar&#8217;s Defence PRO issued a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the pilots, <strong>Major Sankalp Yadav, died <\/strong>of his injuries at 92 Base Hospital. He was 29 years old at the time.Major Yadav, a citizen of Rajasthan&#8217;s Jaipur, was commissioned in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121.jpg\" alt=\"Cheetah helicopter crashed along the LoC in Kashmir's Gurez sector today, an army pilot was killed and his co-pilot was badly injured.\" class=\"wp-image-18898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121.jpg 948w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ezgif-sixteen_nine_121-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His father is the only one who has survived him.The <strong>second pilot is critically ill, but stable, <\/strong>and is currently in intensive care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said the cause of the incident was unknown at the time, and that the location where the tragedy occurred was <strong>fully snowed in.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Informed with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheetah helicopter crashed along the LoC in Kashmir&#8217;s Gurez sector today, an army pilot was killed and his co-pilot was badly injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,6761],"tags":[4482,2178,2085,5502,5503],"class_list":{"0":"post-18895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cheetah-helicopter","10":"tag-chopper-crash","11":"tag-kashmir","12":"tag-line-of-control","13":"tag-loc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18911,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18895\/revisions\/18911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}