The incident occurred while the ONGC helicopter was attempting to land at a rig around 50 nautical miles off the coast of Mumbai. The chopper crashed into the ocean around 1.5 kilometres from the landing area on the rig, an official informed the media.
Digital Desk: After an ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation) helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea on Tuesday
afternoon with seven passengers and two pilots aboard, all nine people were
evacuated. RK Singh, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, reported that "all
nine passengers have been saved." Nearly an hour was spent performing the
procedure.
According to reports, the helicopter was
forced to land using the floaters that are typically attached to helicopters
that transport people and supplies to offshore locations and the coast.
"In a hastily planned maritime lifesaving operation in the Arabian Sea,
careful cooperation among stakeholders led to the identification of all 9
passengers of the tragic @ONGC Pawan Hans. SAR ops (sic) were produced as a
result of the western seaboard's concentrated efforts, as per a tweet from the
Indian Coast Guard.
From adjacent ONGC installations, ships were
sent to the rescue. The Malviya-16 watercraft first saved four individuals.
Later on, a Sagar Kiran rescue boat was also used in the operation.
The incident occurred while the ONGC
helicopter was attempting to land at a rig around 50 nautical miles off the
coast of Mumbai. The chopper crashed into the ocean around 1.5 kilometres from
the landing area on the rig, an official informed the media.
According to the article, ONGC has multiple
rigs and equipment in the Arabian Sea that are utilised to extract oil and gas
from deposits under the seabed. We have not yet looked into the circumstances
surrounding the occurrence.
A helicopter carrying seven passengers and
two pilots makes an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea close to the ONGC
drilling platform Sagar Kiran in Mumbai High, according to an earlier tweet
from the ONGC. 4 were saved. Rescue efforts are under way. @PetroleumMin
@Rameswar Teli @HardeepSPuri (sic).
The ICG soon published the following message:
"@IndiaCoastGuard deployed sea & air assets to rescue 2 crew & 7
passengers of ONGC Pawan Hans Helicopter that crashed off #Mumbai today. In the
area, MRCC (MBI) coordinated SAR and activated ISN. 02 survivors have so far
been found. (sic)".
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