‘Black Box’ Recovered From Gen Rawat’s Crashed Chopper: 10 Latest Points

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and NSA Ajit Doval pays last tributes to Gen Rawat, his spouse, and the 11 IAF personnel who died, when their our bodies arrive at Delhi’s Palam Air Drive base this night, ANI stated, citing sources.

2. All 13 our bodies are being introduced again to Delhi on a C-130J Tremendous Hercules transport plane belonging to the Air Drive. Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, who had flown down yesterday to the crash web site, has returned to Delhi to additionally obtain the our bodies.

3. One of the vehicles carrying the 13 bodies met with a minor accident close to Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district. The automobiles had been transporting the our bodies to the Sulur Air Drive base in Coimbatore, from the place they are going to be flown to Delhi this night.

4. In visuals shared by ANI, a big crowd of locals had gathered to welcome the convoy because it reached the Sulur base. Individuals had been seen shouting ‘Bharat Mata ki jai‘ and showering the road with flower petals because the string of automobiles become the bottom compound.

5. Group Captain Singh – the only survivor – was being handled on the army hospital in Wellington. He has been airlifted to the Air Force’s Command Hospital in Bengaluru. Group Captain Singh is secure however stays in crucial situation, officers have stated.

6. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing Parliament this morning, stated a high-level tri-services inquiry to be led by Air Marshal Manvendra Singh had been ordered.

7. Gen Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Employees, will likely be cremated with full military honours Friday, as will all those that died. The our bodies of Gen Rawat and his spouse, Madhulika Rawat, will likely be taken to the Military hospital in Delhi’s Dhaula Kuan this night.

8. Condolence messages have come from the US, China, Nepal, the UK, Russia, Australia, France, Israel, and Japan. President Ram Nath Kovind stated “the nation has lost one of its bravest sons” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi known as Gen Rawat an “outstanding soldier“. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh known as his dying an “irreparable loss”.

9. The Mi-17V5 Air Drive chopper – described as “the workhorse of the Air Force” and extensively seen as a secure plane, carrying Gen Rawat crashed after it took off from Sulur. The Common was on his solution to the Defence Employees Providers Faculties in Wellington. Group Captain Singh had gone to Sulur from Wellington to obtain Gen Rawat.

10. Unverified footage emerged this morning of a chopper flying in the area; the clip, shared by ANI, reveals the plane flying low and disappearing into the mist. An eyewitness asks “Did it crash?”, to which one other says “Sure”. The chopper, which took off at 11.48 am, would have landed at Wellington in 10 minutes. It was reported lacking at 12.08 pm.

With enter from ANI