The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has confirmed persistent low clouds coupled with high humidity and visibility of 1-2 km at the site at Coonoor in Tamil Nadu where the Mi-17 V5 helicopter crashed and exploded into flames, killing Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder and 11 other defence personnel on December 8, 2021.
Providing satellite images of the weather conditions on the day when the helicopter came down crashing into a valley, the IMD, in a communication to the Tamil Nadu police, said the humidity was hovering around 95% with wind speed of 05-10 knots at an altitude of 1.5 km calculated on the basis of numerical weather prediction model analysis.
