Search on to locate Black Box of Army chopper that crashed in Arunachal

The Army has launched a search operation to find out the Black Box of the Advanced Light Helicopter ALH that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday killing five personnel officials saidThe Black Box is an instrument that records all flight information which could help ascertain the reason for the crashPersonnel of 21 Para Special Force from Jorhat in Assam were airdropped at the crash site near Migging around 35 kilometres from the border with China on Saturday to recover the Black BoxThe area is thickly wooded which is creating hindrances in searching for the Black Box an official said on SundayThe ALH carrying five Army personnel including two pilots was on regular sorties when it crashed at 1043 am on FridayThe bodies of four personnel were recovered on Friday evening from the crash site in a densely wooded mountainous area while the fifth body was found the next dayPrior to the crash the Air Traffic Control ATC had received a mayday call from the pilots of the ALH suggesting a technical or mechanical failure defence spokesperson Lt Col A S Walia saidMayday is the word used across the world to make a distress call over radio communication in case of emergency usually on a ship or aircraftThe Army headquarters ordered a Court of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the crashAlso read Gujarat BJP targets Kejriwal over cracker ban dubs such people antireligiousAccording to officials the weather was good for flying operations on Friday and the two pilots had a combined experience of flying for more than 1800 hoursThe Army helicopter also known as HAL Rudra had taken off from Likabali in Lower Siang districtThe HAL Rudra is an attack helicopter manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HAL for the Indian Army It is a weapon system integrated WSI MkIV variant of the Dhruv ALH and is the first armed helicopter produced indigenously in IndiaThis is the second accident involving an Army helicopter in Arunachal Pradesh this monthA Cheetah helicopter crashed in Tawang district on October 5 and claimed the life of one of its two pilotsAccording to official records Arunachal Pradesh has witnessed 13 crashes since 1995 and 47 people were killed in themThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever