Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:57pm IST
(Corrects time belonging to the week with lead para)
NEW DELHI Aug 30 (Reuters) - Two military helicopters collided inside mid-air during a coaching sortie about India's western express with Gujarat about Thursday, getting rid of eleven Air Force personnel, the us government said.
Television images proved skeletal, charred remains on the Russian-made MI-17 multi-utility helicopters in precisely what felt like a sparsely populated area. The remains was ornamented by way of police, firefighters as well as army officials.
Officials offered simply by marketing mentioned the particular collision web-site appeared to be a government area near your Jamnagar airbase around Gujarat, some sort of express highlighting Pakistan. No casualties or even losing house to the ground was reported.
The place's military offers recently been tormented by normally fatal incidents due to be able to obsolete hardware.. More when compared with one half with the 872 MiG mma fighters India bought from Moscow since quick 1960s have crashed.
India blueprints for it to cost regarding $100 million with the upcoming 10 years that will enhance typically Soviet-era military equipment. (Reporting by Arup Roychoudhury; Editing by way of Frank Jack Daniel and Ron Popeski)
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