An engineer died after he was caught in the blades of a helicopter at Badrinath in Uttarakhand on Saturday morning. The pilot and the co-pilot was injured while the other five passengers are safe.
Uttarakhand: Helicopter failed to take off & crashed in Badrinath. Pax & pilot safe; engineer died on being strangled in helicopter's blades pic.twitter.com/CZJoVY6tcR
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The helicopter, which belongs to Castle Aviation Company from Mumbai, failed to take off as it couldn't gain height. An investigation has been launched to know whether it was human error, technical failure or weather that caused the accident.
More details are awaited.
