Chopper Crash: Avoid "Uninformed Speculation", Urges Air Force

As India pays last respects today to General Bipin Rawat, the country's first Chief of Defence Staff, the Air Force this afternoon said that an inquiry into the chopper crash in Tamil Nadu that killed him and 12 others, including his wife, "would be completed expeditiously."  IAF has constituted a tri-service Court of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the tragic helicopter accident on 08 Dec 21. The inquiry would be completed expeditiously & facts brought out. Till then, to respect the dignity of the deceased, uninformed speculation may be avoided.

Urging that "uninformed speculation" should be avoided, it stressed that "facts (would be) brought out soon".

"IAF has constituted a tri-service Court of Inquiry to investigate the cause of the tragic helicopter accident on 08 Dec 21. The inquiry would be completed expeditiously & facts brought out. Till then, to respect the dignity of the deceased, uninformed speculation may be avoided," read a tweet by the IAF.