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CDS General Bipin Rawat second top Army officer to die in Mi-17 crash
Updated On: 08 December, 2021 07:51 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The previous incident of a senior Indian Army officer dying in a helicopter crash occurred in 1993 - and it also involved an Mi-17 helicopter, bad weather and the officer being accompanied by his wife
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Bipin Rawat. File Pic
India's first Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat (63), died along with his wife and 11 others, when their IAF Mi-17 crashed in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
This was the first fatality of a top defence official in nearly three decades - and has curious coincidences with the previous incident.
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