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Chief minister of Jharkhand in Helicopter crash

What: Aryan Aviation Agusta A109C en route to Kuchai
Where: Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi India
When: 09-MAY-2012
Who: 6 aboard, no fatalities
Why: The Agusta A109C helicopter with chief minister of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda and his wife aboard crash-landed from a height of 25 feet at the Ranchi airport. Those aboard (the chief minister, his wife Meera, two pilots, a security officer and BJP MLA Barkuanr Gagrai) were rushed to the hospital and are being treated for injury.

The Minister was scheduled to inaugurate a power sub-station.

Munda sustained several injuries but is in stable condition at the ICU of Apollo Hospital.

On reaching Kuchai, the pilot had informed ATC that the helicopter had developed a rudder control problem. At Birsa Munda Airport, the pilot made four attempts to land, and then hovered to exhaust fuel. There was no fire when the twenty-year-old helicopter went down, as the fuel supply was exhausted.

The DGCA is investigating, and has appointed Sanit Kumar as the I.O.

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