New Delhi, April 20: Aviation regulator DGCA today launched preliminary investigations into the helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh that claimed 17 lives.
A high-level team of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation led by its chief E K Bharat Bhushan visited the accident site at Tawang, official sources here said, adding that a two-member panel started probe into yesterday’s incident.
They said the DGCA was also proposing to set up a full fledged Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the accident, as was done in the case of the Mangalore air crash last May. A CoI, which is assisted by independent technical assessors, goes into all aspects of an accident.
The team of two DGCA officials — Sanit Kumar, Deputy Director of the Regional Controller of Air Safety, and H N Mishra, a senior official with air safety division — conducted a site inspection on reaching Tawang this morning.
–Agencies