Four persons, three of them ONGC employees, were killed when a helicopter with nine persons on board crashed into the Arabian Sea, about 50 nautical miles from the Mumbai coast, on Tuesday.
The helicopter, which was part of the six Sikorsky S-76D helicopters that Pawan Hans recently leased from Milestone Aviation Group, was about five minutes from its destination — the ONGC’s Sagar Kiran rig — when it went down, company officials said.
The helicopter crashed around 11.45 a.m., just 1 nautical mile from Sagar Kiran, but managed to stay afloat with the help of the attached floaters, helping rescuers pull out all the nine, including two pilots.
