Kochi: Six persons including the pilot were feared killed when their helicopter crashed near Joshimath in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Friday afternoon.
Operated by Trans Bharat Aviation, the helicopter was going from Badrinath to Dehradun when it crashed into a hillside near Chai village with the occupants from Bengaluru, media reports said.
The ground control lost contact with the helicopter while it was crossing the Joshimath Valley.
The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the Army, police and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), were deployed for search and rescue.
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