Thread: Y.S.Raja Sekhar Reddy (1949 - 2009)

Our Honorable Chief Minister Dr.Y.S.Raja Sekhar Reddy died in a plane crash.

Thu, Sep 3 06:44 AM

Kurnool: 24 hours after it went missing, the helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was today located on Rudrakonda hill, 40 nautical miles east of here, but there was no word on his condition. The helicopter is found burnt and mangled.

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"As of now we have located the helicopter. It is on top of a hill at a distance 40 nautical miles (70 kms) east of Kurnool. Our helicopters are there. We are trying to locate whether there are any survivors," Air Commodore Sagar Bharti of the Bangalore air command told reporters here.

"We are not sure if it has crashed or not. We are sure we have located the helicopter," he said. The signal code of the helicopter is 15471479.

Two helicopters were hovering over the area where the helicopter has been located and was looking for a spot to land. The 60-year-old Congress leader, who led the party to a remarkable victory in the recent Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, left Hyderabad for Chitoor at 8.35 AM Wednesday in a twin-engine Bell helicopter which lost contact an hour later.

From Wednesday till now -

- The chopper took off at 8.45 am for Chittoor and was scheduled to arrive at 10.45 am. Earlier reports suggested that the chopper had landed in the middle of thick forest, said to be affected by the Maoist activities.

- Air Traffic Control (ATC) sources said the chopper went off the radar due to heavy rains. The helicopter lost contact with Air Traffic Controller at the Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad and since then there has not been any contact with the Chief Minister.

- There has been no contact with the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, whose helicopter has been missing since 9:30 am after he took off from Hyderabad Wednesday monring, Home Ministry sources said earlier. "There has been no contact established with the helicopter," sources in the ministry said. Helicopters involved in the search had been called back due to bad weather but foot search will continue. 600 CRPF jawans were deployed for the search operation.

- Massive search operations were launched with seven Air Force helicopters and 5000 CRPF personnel pressed to find the Chief Minister and others aboard the chopper.

- Search operations were aborted because of bad weather in the area, which in any case is a challenge due to dense forest. The area is said to be infested with Naxals and Tigers.

- The air-search operations began at 6.00 to 6.30 on Thursday morning and there are reports of YSR's chopper being located. All the members in the chopper including Y.S.Raja Sekhar Reddy are found dead.


Please wish the soul of Y.S.R and all the other people who died in the accident to REST IN PEACE.