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Eminent Indian Personalities Who Lost Their Lives In Air Crashes
NDTV
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, in the year 2009, was aboard the twin-engined Bell 430 helicopter which crashed in the state's Nallamala Hills.
The death of India's first Chief of Defence Staff and longest-serving four-star officer General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor serves us as a reminder of the eminent personalities of the nation who too met their end in air crashes.
On a quick recall, in the year 2011, Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu was found dead near the China border five days after his helicopter went missing.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, in the year 2009, was aboard the twin-engined Bell 430 helicopter which crashed in the state's Nallamala Hills.
In a chopper crash in 2005, two ministers of Haryana were killed on their way to Chandigarh from Delhi. In this crash, the then Haryana Power Minister and acclaimed industrialist OP Jindal, along with then Agriculture Minister of the state Surender Singh died.