Oct 02, 2024 09:12 AM IST
A helicopter with three people onboard crashed in the Bavdhan area in Pune on Wednesday morning.
Three people, including two pilots and an engineer, died after a helicopter crashed in Maharashtra’s Pune district and caught fire on Wednesday morning. The incident took place around 6:45 am in hilly terrain in the Bavdhan area after the helicopter took off from a helipad located at a golf course in the vicinity.
According to the police, the helicopter was carrying three people onboard.
It was not immediately known whether it was a government or a private chopper.
“A helicopter crashed in the Bavdhan area of Pune district. It is yet to be ascertained whose helicopter it was as it is currently up in flames,” Hinjewadi police station’s senior inspector Kanhaiya Thorat told PTI.
Pictures and videos of the incident show the helicopter on fire and massive smoke rising from it.
The police said that four fire tankers from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) are presently at the spot.
While the exact cause of the crash has not yet been identified, police officials said that dense fog could have possibly led to the mishap.
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