Nation’s first Chief of Defence Workers Gen Bipin Rawat died in a Mi-17 V5 helicopter crash on December 8, 2021, and a parliamentary panel report has mentioned the rationale behind the accident which occurred that day was “human error”.
Gen Rawat, his spouse Madhulika Rawat, and plenty of different armed forces personnel had died after the army helicopter they have been travelling in crashed close to Coonoor in Tamil Nadu.
The accident was broadly reported within the media.
Within the report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the Standing Committee on Defence shared the information on the variety of Indian Air Pressure plane crashes that passed off throughout the thirteenth Defence Plan interval.
The whole variety of crashes stood at 34, together with 9 IAF plane accidents that passed off in 2021-22 and 11 in 2018-19.
The tabulated information within the report additionally contained a column titled “cause” that specified the reason for the accidents on this interval, towards the plane kind and date and accident.
The info for the thirty third accident listed within the report talked about the plane as “Mi-17”, date “08.12.2021” and the rationale cited was “HE(A)” or “human error (aircrew)”.
The defence ministry knowledgeable the Committee that 34 inquiries have been performed into these accidents throughout the interval.
“The ministry additionally knowledgeable that the suggestions by these Inquiry committees evaluation the method, process, coaching, gear, tradition, operations, upkeep and administration holistically with intent to forestall recurrence of an accident,” the report mentioned.
The ministry additional knowledgeable that “all remedial measures stipulated by Chief of the Air Workers remarks are binding and actioned”.
“Most have been actioned whereas a couple of are underneath implementation,” it added.
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