Army helicopter crashes in Nasik

Two pilots of the Indian Army were killed when their Cheetah helicopter crashed in a residential area in Maharastra’s Nasik district on Wednesday, police said.

The chopper crashed soon after it took off from an Army aviation training schools after 9 am.

Army personnel rushed to the site of the accident for rescue operation. The pilots were yet to be identified.

Initial reports said the pilots in the ranks of Major were dead in the accident.

The chopper was on a routine sortie from Nashik to an Army base in Goa.