Uttarakhand Chief Minister on Thursday paid respect to soldier Narayan Singh, one of the four soldiers whose remains were recovered from the wreckage of an AN-12 aircraft that crashed in the Lahaul valley of Himachal Pradesh in 1968.
The mortal remains of Sepoy Malkhan Singh, who was killed in the Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-12 aircraft crash near Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh in 1968, were brought to his native village in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur on Wednesday.
The aircraft, belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF), was carrying 102 Army personnel on board and was on a routine flight from Chandigarh to Leh when it met with the tragic accident over five decades ago.
The aircraft- a Sukhoi-30 was carrying two pilots and the Mirage 2000 was carrying one pilot during the time of the crash. Initial reports suggest the two pilots are safe while an IAF team is reaching the spot soon in a chopper to ascertain the condition of the third pilot, according to D
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], July 21 (ANI): After a span of 50 years, the body of a 1968 Indian Air Force (IAF) plane crash victim was found in Himachal Pradesh's Dhaka glacier base camp. A mountaineering expedition recovered the body on July 1.