Flight Lieutenant Tapan Kapoor
Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne today said all 20 men on the Mi17 chopper that crashed yesterday near Gaurikund in flood-hit Uttarakhand are dead. Here are the men who were on board:
The five Indian Air Force personnel on board the helicopter were: Wing Commander Darryl Castelino, Flight Lieutenant K Praveen, Junior Warrant Officer AK Singh, Sergeant Sudhakar Yadav, Flight Lieutenant Tapan Kapoor
The nine National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel on board the helicopter were: Commandant Nitya Nand Gupta, 48, resident of Kanpur; Inspector Bhim Singh, 49, resident of Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir; Sub Inspector Satish Kumar, 44, resident of Bhiwani in Haryana; Constable K. Vinaygan, 28, resident of Chitoor in Andhra Pradesh; Constable Bassavaraj Yaragatti, 31, resident of Gadag in Karnataka; Constable Santosh Kumar Paswan, 24, resident of Koderma in Jharkhand; Constable Sanjiva Kumar, 27, resident of Balia in Uttar Pradesh; Constable Shashi Kant Ramesh Pawar, 31, resident of Dhulia in Maharashtra; and Constable Ahir Rao Ganesh, 32, resident of Jalgaon in Maharashtra.
The six Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel on board the helicopter were: Commandant Nand Ram, 27; Sub Inspector Jayender Prasad, 55; Constable Jomon P.G., 26; Constable Bibhuti Roy, 26; Constable Sarvesh Kumar, 31; and Constable Ajay Lal, 23.