Coonoor, Dec. 9 (Agencies)- Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, an Army Brigadier and ten others perished when an Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17V5 helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the Nilgiris in western Tamil Nadu yesterday afternoon.
This morning, a team of Tamil Nadu Forensic Science Department headed by Director Srinivasan arrived at the crash site near Kattery in Coonoor. The black box of MI-17 chopper has been recovered. Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari has reached the site of the chopper crash.
