Army helicopter Cheetah crashes two Army aviation pilots dead in Arunachal

Two Army aviation pilots on an operational sortie in a Cheetah helicopter were killed when it crashed in Arunachal Pradesh’s West Kameng district on Thursday morning.

This is the third Army chopper crash in five months and the 13th air disaster in 15 years in the mountainous frontier state, which have claimed 93 lives of military personnel and civilians, including former chief minister of the state, the late Dorjee Khandu.