Army chopper with four personnel goes missing in Sikkim

April 21, 2011 04:52 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 06:45 am IST - Gangtok

File photo of a Dhruv Advance Light Helicopter.

File photo of a Dhruv Advance Light Helicopter.

An Army helicopter, with two pilots and two soldiers, on Thursday went missing while flying over north Sikkim, triggering concerns over the fate of the chopper and the personnel.

The Advance Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv of the Army Aviation Corps had taken off from Sewak Road Base in Siliguri at 10.30 a.m., Army sources said.

It lost radio contact at around 11.30 a.m., the sources said adding efforts are on to locate it.

The Base is under the 33 Corps Headquarters based in Siliguri.

Dhruv is an indigenously-developed helicopter inducted in the Army only recently.

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