Army has found the body of Lt Col Abhit Singh Bath, one of the pilots of the helicopter that crashed in Ranjit Sagar Dam. Lt Col Abhit Singh Bath is a resident of Amritsar. He leaves behind his wife and two children.
Although the co-pilot Captain Jayant Joshi has not been found yet. The body of Colonel Bath has been sent to the Mamoon cantonment of Pathankot of the Air Force. While the search for the co-pilot is still on. About a week after the accident, the army took over the entire search operation and sealed the dam site from all sides.
Its pilot and co-pilot went missing after the helicopter, which took off from Pathankot’s Mamoon Cantonment on August 3, crashed into the Ranjit Sagar Dam lake. After which the divers had scoured the lake every bit. Joint teams of the Army and Navy were engaged in the search for the pilots and the wrecked area.
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On August 3, the helicopter crashed in Palahi village near Kathua, Jammu, 20 minutes after the exercise took off. The lake in which the helicopter fell is spread over an area of 85 square km. 60 percent of the lake falls in Jammu and Kashmir and 40 percent in Punjab. The depth of the lake is about 200 feet.
According to a media report, to locate the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed 4 days ago, automated equipment was installed in the 80 meters depth of the lake. Which could help in finding the wreckage of the helicopter, but this effort of the army and navy was not successful. After this, the army lowered the submarine into the dam, after which the body of Lieutenant Colonel Abhit Singh Bath was recovered last Sunday evening. The search for the co-pilot is still on.
