Pilot, maintenance failure caused copter crash

New Delhi: Maintenance failure and human error caused the helicopter crash that killed the then Haryana Agriculture Minister Surender Singh and Power Minister O P Jindal in March 2005. This is what the inquiry report of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) says. The DGCA has submitted its final report to the government, which was yet to ratify it.
‘‘Investigations reveal turbine failure and the inability of the pilot to notice the increase in temperature because of the failure. So, in effect, the crash was a combination of a maintenance problem and human error,’’ said a senior DGCA official.
The chopper pilot TS Chauhan was also killed in the crash in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
12/06/06 Raghvendra Rao/Indian Express

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