As soon as the news trickled in, as many as eight 108 emergency ambulance vans reached the spot over a few hours to join the rescue mission, and six doctors from the Coimbatore Medical College also reached Coonoor.ДЄlso Read | CDS chopper crash: Some unanswered questions Nilgiris is surrounded by thick forests and the chopper crashed just 10 minutes before it was to reach its destination in Wellington, where the CDS was to deliver a lecture at the Defence Services Staff College. Prakash also claimed only the pilot was pulled out alive and all others died on the spot. The site where the chopper crashed is a farm owned by the Horticulture Department. вЂњI saw the helicopter flying low over Burliyar village. Prakash, a resident of Burliyar village, also spoke on the same lines, adding that the weather was misty when the chopper crashed in the hills, which is part of the Western Ghats. Krishnaswamy, who was one of the eyewitnesses to the tragic incident, said he was shocked to see people falling from the chopper and rushed to inform his neighbour Kumar, a young man, who in turn alerted the police and fire service personnel on his mobile phone. These are the words of Krishnaswamy, a resident of Nanjappanchathiram in Upper Coonoor in the picturesque Nilgiris district where an IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed killing Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 11 others.ДЄlso Read | CDS Bipin Rawat, wife, 11 others killed in helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu It hit another big tree within a few seconds and I saw people falling from the helicopter.

вЂњI heard a loud sound of a helicopter around my house and when I looked to see what happened, the chopper was already on fire after hitting a tree.

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