A US probe has found that the pilot and co-pilot of the helicopter that crashed on September 2 killing Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy and two others knew they were flying in dangerously bad weather, an official said here Wednesday.
“The US FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) investigated the conversation between the pilot and co-pilot minutes before the chopper crashed. They also spoke of bad weather,” said a senior official of the civil aviation ministry. The Indian government had sent cockpit voice recorder and some samples of the wreckage of the twin-engine Bell-430 copter to the US for investigation.
This is the first confirmation that the pilots knew they were flying into rough weather. It has been reported earlier that the atmospheric conditions on the helicopter’s route from Hyderabad to Kadapa was bad. Investigators are probing if the pilots knew of the conditions. The Pawan Hans Corpo-ration chairman R.K. Tyagi, who heads a five-member high-powered committee of Directorate General of Civil Aviation probing the crash, said it would come out with its findings in three-four days.
Mr Sanjay Brahmin, one of the members of the DGCA team, said it had not been provided with details of the pilots’ conversation. The CBI deputy inspector-general of police, Mr V.V. Lakshminarayana, said, “We had asked the DGCA for the transcript of Cockpit Voice Recorder on September 22. We are yet to receive a copy.”
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