Sunday, May 1, 2011

Pawan Hans Tragedies and North East!

Just few days back there was a chopper accident in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India (China claims this part as its own land although ;) ) killing around 17 people including 1 or 2 foreigners. There were couple of such incidents before as well. There was a huge demand at that time to suspend the services of Pawan Hans helicopter in North East regions. It was also in the news that the choppers declared as unsuitable for use or outdated, are sent to North East region which are claiming human lives frequently. North East Student Association (NESO) demanded the halt of Pawan Hans service just after this incident last week. But the service of this deadly helicopter was still on. Today the same Pawan Hans helicopter with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister on board with four other people has gone missing and the Government now is taking the help of ISRO to locate the chopper. Hope the government will wake up after this incident at least and either suspend the operation of this killer chopper or look into their maintenance.

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