On Wednesday, an Indian Air Force chopper carrying Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat crashed in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Thirteen of the fourteen people who were killed in the tragedy have been identified. The IAF has established a Court of Inquiry into the mishap, which involved a Mi-17VH helicopter that took off from the Sulur IAF Station in adjacent Coimbatore. There is no immediate word on Gen Rawat’s condition.
RIP General Bipin Rawat!
— Lt Gen H S Panag(R) (@rwac48) December 8, 2021
Gen Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was on a visit to Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (Nilgiri Hills) to address the faculty and student officers of the Staff Course today.
— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) December 8, 2021
Deeply anguished by the sudden demise of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 other Armed Forces personnel in an extremely unfortunate helicopter accident today in Tamil Nadu.
His untimely death is an irreparable loss to our Armed Forces and the country.
— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) December 8, 2021
