{"id":303470,"date":"2018-10-01T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303470"},"modified":"2018-10-01T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T07:07:05","slug":"indian-navy-chetak-ch442-chopper-crashed-during-training-sortie-at-rajali-base-in-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-navy-chetak-ch442-chopper-crashed-during-training-sortie-at-rajali-base-in-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy Chetak CH442 chopper crashed during training sortie at Rajali base in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-navy-chetak-ch442-chopper-crashed-during-training-sortie-at-rajali-base-in-tamil-nadu\/chetak-helicopter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303471\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303471 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chetak-helicopter-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chetak-helicopter-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/chetak-helicopter.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Chetak CH442 chopper of Indian Navy on a routine training sortie on October 1 crashed at INS Rajali, the naval base in Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Navy spokesperson said that the incident took place when Chetak CH442 chopper was carrying out dry-winching dual sortie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports the crew is safe and there has been damage to the main and tail rotors of the chopper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Navy spokesperson reportedly said, &#8220;Three crew members were on board at the time. All three are safe.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident just comes days after an IAF MiG 27 crashed near Jodhpur on September 4, 2018. In a similar incident on June 8 IAF&#8217;s &#8216;Jaguar&#8217; developed a snag while landing and had a minor accident. The pilot was undergoing a routine training mission from the Jamnagar Air Force base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One another incident of same nature occurred on June 5 in which plane went down in the Mundra taluk of the Kutch region in northwestern Gujarat claiming life of \u00a0Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chetak CH442 chopper of Indian Navy on a routine training sortie on October 1 crashed at INS Rajali, the naval base in Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu. A Navy spokesperson said that the incident took place when Chetak CH442 chopper was carrying out dry-winching dual sortie. According to reports the crew is safe and there has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[5307,5306,5308,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303473,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303470\/revisions\/303473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}