{"id":84565,"date":"2025-09-01T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=84565"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:40:10","slug":"gb-government-helicopter-crashes-near-chilas-three-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/gb-government-helicopter-crashes-near-chilas-three-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"GB govt helicopter crashes near Chilas, five crew members dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: An army <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/helicopter-crashed-during-rescue-operation\/\">helicopter crashed<\/a> in Chilas town in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday, resulting in the martyrdom of five of its crew members, the military&#8217;s media wing said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that an MI-17 helicopter developed a technical fault and crashed near Hudor village, approximately 12 kilometers away from Thakdas Cantonment, at 10:00 am today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The helicopter was on routine training flying when it developed a technical fault and crashed. As a result, all crew members on board embraced shahadat,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The crew members were identified as Major Atif, the pilot in command, Major Faisal, the co-pilot, flight engineer Naib Subedar Maqbool, and crew chiefs Havaldar Jahangir and Naik Amir, according to the ISPR.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the GB government spokesperson confirmed the accident, adding that the helicopter crashed during landing due to a technical fault. The govt spox said that there were 2 pilots and 3 technical staff members on board.<\/p>\n<p>After the accident, a large number of people, including Commander FCNA, DG Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts, and Commissioner Diamer, reached the spot, and rescue operations are underway.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, an unconfirmed picture received from the site of the helicopter crash can be seen showing smoke rising. After the incident, local people tried to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing regret over the helicopter crash, Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Haji Gulbar Khan has directed rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, an emergency has been imposed at the Regional Headquarters Hospital, Chilas.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that earlier, on August 15, a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government helicopter that was on its way to carry out relief activities in flood-affected areas crashed, killing five people on board.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place due to bad weather in Sokai near Chengai Banda in Mohmand district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: An army helicopter crashed in Chilas town in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday, resulting in the martyrdom of five of its crew members, the military&#8217;s media wing said in a statement. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that an MI-17 helicopter developed a technical fault and crashed near Hudor village, approximately 12 kilometers away from Thakdas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30993],"class_list":["post-84565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-gb-helicopter-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84590,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84565\/revisions\/84590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}