Indian Navy Plane Catches Fire, Crew Safe

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Indian Navy Plane Catches Fire, Crew Safe


A seven-member crew aboard an Indian Navy Sea King helicopter escaped a fire as the plane was taxiing for take-off in Mangalore, southwest India, on Monday, local media reported.

The Southern Naval Command-based helicopter was en route to Mumbai from Kochi on a routine flying sortie when the incident occurred at around 00:11 a.m., said local daily The Hindu's electronic edition.

The fire was doused immediately and the crew were evacuated to safety.

 

[Red.Indian]

sea king helicopters......are preety old now.....they need to be phased out

 

[acetophenol]

Thank god the crew is safe.

 

[Soumya_india]

Thank got everybody is safe....
and RIP to the heli..

 

[T90TankGuy]

seems to be a bad week for aircrafts in the forces , first this now a su30 mki today .

 

[Abingdonboy]

This has been overhyped. Thar fact the helo landed and all onboard are safe shows this was a very minor fire/fault. These sorts of things happen all the time, the SeaKing (especially UPG IN ones) have pretty advanced automatic fire extinguishers and they can be triggered by the smallest of fires.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Thank got everybody is safe....
and RIP to the heli..

AFAIK, the helo is not written off. The fire was doused and the a/c will get fixed up.

 

[rds1207]

Our airforce wants new toys that is why they are destroying the old one

 

[Obambam]

Great to hear that crew members from both this and the MKI are safe.

 

[perplexed]

minor incident ...duh !!

 

[Mazharrafiq]

agree with rds