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Indian army Cheetah helicopter crashes in Bhutan, two pilots die

| @indiablooms | Sep 27, 2019, at 04:37 pm

Guwahati, Sep 27 (IBNS): An Indian army Cheetah helicopter crashed in Bhutan on Friday and left two pilots dead, officials said.

The incident happened at around 1-19 pm.

Two pilots were on board reportedly died in the incident.

According to the reports, the incident took place at Trashigang area near Youngphula domestic airport due to bad weather.

A Captain from the Royal Bhutan Army and a Lieutenant Colonel from the Indian Army Aviation died in the helicopter crash.


More details awaited.


(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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