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The entire area will have to be cordoned off. Atleast now the govt should move its a$$ and eliminate the naxals.

The entire area will have to be cordoned off. Atleast now the govt should move its a$$ and eliminate the naxals.

YSR's Helicopter search called off

PTI | New Delhi

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The helicopter has been stopped for the time being because of weather and light conditions. Tomorrow in the first light of the day, helicopters will continue the search, he said.

However, Chidambaram said the search on foot by forest and revenue officials was on around the point where they think the helicopter was last seen. Police and CRPF personnel were also moving on foot. They would reach there in an hour or so.....

The Union Home Ministry has rushed 5,000 CRPF personnel to the area from nearby Chattisgarh and Orissa to conduct search in the area.Andhra Pradesh police is moving towards the site where the helicopter was last seen or where the mobile signal was last found. (????)

CRPF personnel are also moving. They will also reach the area in an hour or so. Let's hope for the best and let's pray for the best, he said.....

A lot of time has passed - doesn't the helicopter have a black box? Does one have to fly right over the black box to detect it, I wonder.

One of the TV channels had some one from the army as an expert. He said that this helicopter does not have any form of a beacon emitter. Apparently only army helicopters have those. This helicopter does not have a beacon emitter, nor a communication device...

At least one report suggests that there was one radio contact with the helicopter after it landed.

Andhra CM's chopper not airworthy: DGCA


http://publication.samachar.com/topstor ... hidambaram

Does not make sense. A CM using a chopper not airworthy!

I would not be surprised if anyone wanted to take out personal vendetta and downed the helicopter (Info for some one not from AP: YSR is a known factionist and has lots of enemies, read about the latest film thats being made by Ram gopal verma on paritala ravi, he was a known enemy of YSR and would not be surprised if his family members had any hand in this)

personally i believe that YSR should be found alive, if he is not then we would have lots of infighting in the party(last time the con party had some thing like this we had three different instances of hindu muslim riots and 1000's of innocents had to loose lives and had to go through 3-4 Chief Ministers)

PTI reports that the same helicopter developed some snags about a month ago when it was carrying Dalai Lama! The chopper's windscreen developed a crack it says.

Also, there was some Air Marshal (Retd) <Keloor was it?>, who is supposed to be an aviation safety expert also pointing to the fact that the chopper had not undergone the regular tests before it took off. But he also mentioned categorically, that it did not mean the chopper was faulty. But yes, this was serious lapse.

This helicopter does not have a beacon emitter, nor a communication device...

Addendum: 300 Army personnel equipped with thermal imaging devices and NVGs also pressed into action

Aviation experts are intrigued on one issue concerning the disappearance of the helicopter of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y Rajasekhara Reddy: Why is there no signal coming from the BEL 430 chopper?

Helicopter experts point out that the BEL chopper is equipped with an Emergency Location Transmitter (ELT) that can send out signals for 48 to 72 hours. The ELT gets automatically activated if the chopper crashes. But if it has been caught in a difficult weather or terrain, the pilot can manually activate the ELT.

In the case of YSR's helicopter, neither of this has happened. This is a mystery. Experts say there could be two reasons: The ELT probably is not functioning (which, if true, is a major lapse) or there was a serious mechanical problem that rendered the ELT useless (which is a remote possibility).

If the signals were emitted, it could have been captured by the search and rescue satellite operated by ISRO. The satellites of ISRO have a transponder only for this purpose and it is use extensively by the Air Force in case of a missing plane - either of India or other countries.

Since this signal did not come from YSR's chopper, the Air Force decided to press in the Sukhoi-30 fighters that have very sensitive radars and capabilities to reconstruct a thermal map of a wide area. The Sukhois can catch any unusual event in difficult terrain.

In 2005, it was a Sukhoi that caught an unusual activity in the deep forest area of Belgaum where an Indian Navy plane had gone missing for four days. Based on the Sukhoi's inputs, troops were able to locate the aircraft after five days and found a survivor who was still strapped to his seat.

The government has also pressed in the aircraft of National Remote Sensing organisation (NRSA ) that can fly at very low altitude and has good night vision.

The problem, according to experts, is that in case of an emergency landing or crash of a helicopter in dense forest, the `disturbance' in the area will be hardly 200-500 metres. Such a small disturbance is hard to locate by overhead flying planes. It all depends on how big a `footprint' the aircraft leaves behind when it goes down, said an expert.

The only hope is to physically look out for the helicopter through dense combing operations. That is why the Army has pressed in its elite troops that have what is called `deep instincts' to locate and rescue personnel.

Reports also indicate that the pilot may have deviated from the approved flight path in order to avoid rough weather conditions. This has made the search operations difficult. If the pilot had stuck to the flight path, it would have been easy to pin-point a rough area where it went down by calculating the flight duration.

Source: India Syndicate

US spy satelite to focus on AP , how many strategic sites are there in the area ?

US spy satelite to focus on AP , how many strategic sites are there in the area ?

Like they need our permission to foucs.

Like they need our permission to foucs.

No factionist has the ability to take down a helicopter. That's bull. He killed a lot of TDP leaders with the help of criminals and police. The murderer of Paritala Ravi is to be released this month after a mercy petition approval on Aug 15. That's a joke! It shows how directly YSR is involved in the murder not some nameless CON party activists. But the ever sycophantic media is silent on this. Paritala is no saint but if the CM organizes murders, what is the state of the common man? No wonder youth spray acid on girls if they reject their overtures. They take their cues from crooks such as YSR.

Don't care either way. Dead or alive, YSR will haunt AP for a long time thanks to his murderous and looting ways!

the NSA accepted to Times Now that the US Dept of Defence has been asked for help,

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There are 3 other people on that helicopter other than YSR. At least show some concern for them.

There are 3 other people on that helicopter other than YSR. At least show some concern for them.

Ramakant Reddy: We have 41 imageries picked up by the low flying aircraft of the ISRO Bangalore. They would take about another three hours or so to analyse. So I am expecting some news from the NRSA in Hyderabad after going through the ISRO satellite images maybe after 11.30 pm.