ONGC chopper falls into sea; 4 dead
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Four persons, including 3 ONGC employees, died when a Pawan Hans helicopter with two pilots and seven others on board fell into the Arabian Sea about 50 nautical miles from the Mumbai coast.
The helicopter managed to stay afloat with the help of the attached floaters for some time, helping rescuers pull out all the nine people, a company official said.
Four of them were unconscious and were airlifted in a Navy chopper to a hospital in Mumbai, where they were declared dead, he added.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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- ONGC
- Mumbai
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