Itanagar, April 30: A helicopter carrying Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu and four others went missing today shortly after take off from Tawang and apprehensions grew about their fate with search operations yielding no results.
Khandu, accompanied by the sister of Tawang MLA, security officer, had taken off from Tawang at 9:56 am and was to land at Itanagar at 11:30 am by a Pawan Hans helicopter Eurocopter B3 craft. Tawang is about 200 kms from here.
The chopper was last in communication with the base when it was overflying Sela Pass, 20 minutes after taking off from Tawang, and all communications were lost after that.
–Agencies