'Nonsense', says Air Force Chief about pilots abandoning injured cop

[janon]

'Nonsense', says Air Force Chief about pilots abandoning injured cop | NDTV.com

Allegations that the pilots and crew of an Air Force helicopter abandoned an injured policeman in Chhattisgarh are "all nonsense," said Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne today.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of Home Affairs wrote to the Defence Ministry, asking for a detailed enquiry into the incident and punishment for the pilots.

"The impression that they abandoned, they ran away, I think this is all nonsense," the air chief said.

Last month, the Air Force was asked to evacuate a policeman injured in gun battle with Naxals in South Bastar. The Mi-17 helicopter was hit at least a dozen times as it landed; a wireless operator on board from the Chhattisgarh police was injured. The pilots and crew rushed to the safety of a police camp nearby, leaving the injured man behind with two Light Machine Guns and their personal weapons.

The air force chief said today that the team left the helicopter and the man who'd been injured because they were aware they could be taken hostage, which would have created a bigger crisis.

The chief also warned that "It (anti-Naxal operations) is going to be a long haul and it is not about easy solutions.If we keep sniping like this, the same thing happened in the (Kashmir) Valley and is still happening there where they (forces inimical to the country's interest) want to create divisions between security forces and security agencies."

 

[third eye]

He may ' think' it is nonsense.

facts as they emerge seem to speak otherwise.

 

[OrionHunter]

It sure is pretty intriguing! Why couldn't the guys carry the injured policeman to the nearest CRP camp which was just a couple of km away? I think there's more than meets the eye here. I hope the truth comes out sooner than later.

 

[janon]

It sure is pretty intriguing! Why couldn't the guys carry the injured policeman to the nearest CRP camp which was just a couple of km away? I think there's more than meets the eye here. I hope the truth comes out sooner than later.

The IAF's explanation was that he was too injured to move.

There is an inquiry going on, and we will know the truth after it is done.

But the IAF chief is right about one thing - this sniping at each other in public, lapped up eagerly by the media, has to stop.

 

[ptltejas]

I think the guys thinking those two must had to died there and not to try to either survive or to take steps to save injured police man.

In 1973 when INS Khukri was attacked the other ship left the ship and its soldiers as it is. Later on the captain of the ship had been awarded a medal cause if he also stay their, his ship and soldiers(Naviks) could be in the same situation.

there is need to use mind rather than Heart to deal with this type of situation.