The helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu and four others to fly from Tawang to Itanagar went missing on Saturday morning missing today.
The second day as inclement weather hampered a massive ground and aerial search involving Sukhoi war planes, several choppers and satellite imagery.
Two IAF Sukhois from Bareilly and a MI-17 of IAF joined hundreds of personnel of Army, SSB, ITBP and police in the searches but failed to locate the chopper that went missing yesterday after taking off from Tawang for Itanagar.
Conflicting reports
Home Minister Tako Dabi said in the afternoon that the government received information that the helicopter landed somewhere near the India-Bhutan border, and that another helicopter was rushed to Guwahati to bring the Chief Minister.
On August 6, 2010, a crew member died after he fell down when the door of a Pawan Hans helicopter suddenly opened midair shortly after it took off from Namsai in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh.
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