The mortal remains of four help of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and two dogfaces of the Indian Army killed in the copter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu before this week has been completed, news agency ANI reported on Saturday Out of the total 14 officers and help on board the copter, 13 were killed in the terrible Mi-17V5 copter crash near Coonoor city on Wednesday. India’s first chief of defence staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his woman Madhulika Raje Singh Rawat, and the CDS’defence adjunct Brigadier LS Lidder were among the dead.
The others are Lieutenant Colonel Harjinder Singh, Wing Commander Prithvi Singh Chauhan ( airman), Squadron Leader Kuldeep Singh (co-pilot), Junior Warrant Officers Rana Pratap Das and Arakkal Pradeep, Havildar Satpal Rai, Naik Gursewak Singh, Naik Jitendra Kumar, Lance Naik Vivek Kumar and Lance Naik B Sai Teja The army also said, according to ANI, positive identification of mortal remains of Lance Naik Vivek Kumar and Lance Naik B Sai Teja has been done. The news agency reported citing the IAF air transport plan for them as well as the linked army dogfaces will follow
“ The mortal remains have been released to close family members this morning. Mortal remains will move by air for last solemnities with applicable military honour. Wreaths will be laid at the Base Hospital, Delhi Cantonment previous to departure,” ANI cited an army functionary as saying The process for positive identification of remaining mortal remains is continuing,” the functionary also said Gen Bipin Rawat, his woman Madhulika Rawat and his Brigadier Lidder were cremated with full military honours at Delhi’s Brar Square Crematorium as their bodies were appreciatively linked.
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The sole survivor, Group Captain Varun Singh, is on life support at the IAF Command Hospital in Bengaluru. A top three- star officer is heading the inquiry into the crash. Rawat was on a visit to the prestigious Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) at Wellington to address the faculty and pupil officers there On Friday, officers said family members of all the 10 help have arrived in the public capital to identify the remains.”The emotional well- being of family members is of utmost significance to us. So we’re taking forward the identification process keeping in mind the perceptivity involved,”an sanctioned told PTI The Coonoor crash was one of the worst air accidents involving India’s top military brass.
