STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: An Apache attack helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a “precautionary landing” in Punjab’s Pathankot district while on a routine sortie on Friday, sources said.
Both the pilot and the co-pilot are safe, they added.
Images earlier showed the chopper in a field, somewhere in the Pathankot district, after having made the “precautionary landing”.
The chopper had taken off from the Pathankot airbase, a source said, adding that both the pilot and the co-pilot later flew it back to the Pathankot airbase.
More details are awaited.
This comes a week after an Apache helicopter of the IAF made a “precautionary landing” in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur due to a technical issue while on a routine sortie.
All necessary checks were conducted after the landing, and the helicopter was made serviceable. Both the pilot and the co-pilot had then flown it to the Sarsawa airbase in Saharanpur, the official had said on June 6.
