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2 Majors Die In Cheetah Chopper Crash

February 03 2011

India

Two Indian army officers have been killed in a helicopter crash in a residential area in Nashik in the western Maharashtra state, reports the Indo-Asian news Service.

The Cheetah helicopter was being flown by two majors, both qualified flying instructors, when it went down Wednesday morning shortly after taking off from the army helicopter training school in Nashik.

The aircraft, assigned to an army aviation unit in Jodhpur, was headed to Goa en route to Bangalore to take...

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