New Delhi: The report of the parliamentary committee shaped to research the loss of life of the nation’s first Chief of Defence Employees (CDS), Common Bipin Rawat, has been launched. The committee, in its report, attributed the MI-17 V5 helicopter crash on December 8, 2021, to human error. Common Rawat, his spouse Madhulika Rawat, and a number of other different armed forces personnel misplaced their lives when their navy helicopter crashed close to Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. The accident was broadly reported within the media.
What The Parliamentary Panel Report Mentioned
Common Rawat’s helicopter crashed right into a hillside close to Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, three years in the past. On Tuesday, the Standing Committee on Defence offered its findings within the Lok Sabha, citing “human error (aircrew)” as the reason for the incident. An earlier IAF probe had dominated out negligence, mechanical failure, or sabotage.
The report, ready by the Committee, additionally detailed plane crashes within the Indian Air Drive throughout the 13th Defence Plan interval. It recorded 34 crashes, together with 9 in 2021-22 and 11 in 2018-19. Underneath the column titled “Trigger,” human error was listed as the explanation for these accidents.
The defence ministry knowledgeable the Committee that inquiries had been performed for all 34 incidents. Suggestions from these inquiries goal to handle course of, process, coaching, tools, and operational facets to stop future accidents.
2021 Chopper Crash
The only real survivor of Mi-17V5 crash, Group Captain Varun Singh, a Shaurya Chakra awardee, initially survived however succumbed to his accidents every week later throughout therapy. He had been shifted from Wellington to a navy hospital in Bengaluru and had sustained extreme burns.
