Army’s northern commander visits injured pilots

Jammu, May 5 (PTI) Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, the Army’s Northern Command chief, visited the command hospital in Udhampur on Friday and interacted with the two pilots injured in a helicopter crash a day earlier, officials said.

The Army helicopter crashed after a “hard landing” in a forested area in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on Thursday following a technical fault, killing a technician and injuring the two pilots on board.

The Army commander interacted with the pilots at the command hospital at Udhampur, they said.

He commended them for their devotion to duty and wished them a speedy recovery.