Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 9: 130 Helicopter Unit – “The Condors”, of IAF, based at Jammu, yet again undertook a demanding operation of rescuing 53 stranded people from the inaccessible and snow bound villages of Kishtwar district, today.
Braving piercing snow waves, and extreme cold conditions, IAF’s MI-17 Chopper in assistance with the local administration airlifted the people where they had been trapped for the past one week.
The operation was carried out under the captainship of Sqn Ldr Shailesh Singh and Co-pilot Flight Lieutenant Shishir Tewari. Though the crew had to wait to get airborne due to poor weather conditions in valley and forward area since morning the aircraft finally took off at 1130 hrs with marginal weather conditions and continued with the operations till the last light of the day in the freezing temperature of minus 6 degree Celsius.
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