What: Indian Air Force HAL Chetak/Alouette III en route from Kalaikunda to Bagdoghra
Where: Sundarpahari area, Godda district, Jharkhand state
When: Sept 11 2010
Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
Why: While en route in bad weather, the flight crashed in Sundarpahari near Sinharsi air base. Two pilots and a co pilot were killed. Weather is assumed to be the cause, but the IAF has ordered an inquiry .

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