Pakistan

Military helicopter crashes in Hunza

Pilot of Hughes OH-7 receives minor injuries

Shabbir Mir July 14, 2016

Pilot of Hughes OH-7 receives minor injuries. PHOTO: EXPRESS

A helicopter of Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) crashed in Hunza Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan on Thursday, injuring the pilot.

“The incident occurred soon after the chopper, Huges OH-7, took off,” Deputy Commissioner Hunza Burhan Afandi told The Express Tribune.

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“The pilot sustained injuries in the incident,” Afandi said, adding that five persons were on-board at the time of crash.

Amjad Barcha, a local journalist said the helicopter crashed in the ground of Hunza Boys Degree College soon after it took off.

Volunteers arrived at the site of the incident immediately and were trying to extinguish the fire, an eyewitness claimed.

In February, an army aviation’s helicopter crashed near Tarbela Dam, killing a senior military officer and injuring two others.

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“An MI-17 helicopter of Army Aviation was on a routine training operation when it crashed within the Army Aviation base Ghazi, some 55km from Tehsil Ghazi, after developing some technical fault at sunset killing Lt-Col Tauqir on the spot,” DSP Ghazi Tehsil Hakim Khan told The Express Tribune.

COMMENTS (1)

Amanullah Khan | 8 years ago | Reply Hunza is famous for helping the needy when some one is in trouble. Volunteering the services is the backbone of this tradition. We hope the volunteers of Hunza will come to help out the passengers.The tradition of volunteerism has got a boost because of the guidance of His Highness the Aga Khan. In Ismaili tradition of Islam 90 percent of jamaati work is carried out by the volunteers.

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