New Delhi: t may be even hard to imagine that something like this can ever happen. A university sports ground hosting a hugely-attended tournament when a chopper suddenly appears from nowhere and lands there without any prior information or warning, sending hundreds running for cover.
Strange as it may sound, this is precisely what happened at the prestigious IIT Roorkee on the morning of May 5, 2014, when a chopper carrying Congress leader and Bollywood biggie Raj Babbar landed at the institute's Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium. The chopper (VT-PHO) belonged to state-owned Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd (PHHL) and was chartered by Babbar's party possibly for campaigning in the recently-concluded polls.
What's even scarier is that an internal and initial probe by PHHL is indicating that the chopper landed there because the company was given wrong coordinates! And Pawan Hans, possibly without carrying any cross-checks just landed there.
Read news in full 28/05/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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