Badrinath helicopter crash LIVE updates: Bodies of all 6, including pilot, recovered from crash site

Badrinath helicopter crash LIVE updates: Six people, including the pilot, were killed after a helicopter carrying five passengers crashed near Chayee village in the Jyotirmath area of Chamoli district on Friday. The helicopter was flying from Badrinath to Sahastradhara in Dehradun when it crashed amid adverse weather conditions, officials said.NK Joshi, Chamoli district disaster management officer, said the helicopter, operated by Trans Bharat Aviation Pvt Ltd and bearing the call sign VT-HCX, took off from Badrinath at around 1.14 pm.

It lost communication shortly afterwards while flying over the Jyotirmath valley, following which its tracking system also stopped showing its location.He said the incident was reported through an Army post, following which joint teams of the Army, police, district administration and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were mobilised from Pandukeshwar and Jyotirmath to carry out search and rescue operations.

Drone teams were also deployed from the district headquarters in Gopeshwar.The helicopter flying from Badrinath to Dehradun in Uttarakhand crashed near Joshimath on Friday afternoon. The crash was reported amid deteriorating weather conditions in the region.Two helicopters from the Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority (UCADA) were deployed for aerial reconnaissance on Friday as the state government launched an extensive search and rescue operation following helicopter crash in the Hathi Parvat area of Chamoli district.