Andhra CM YSR Reddy dead!

ll sources have now confirmed that the CM and his chopper is missing. As per reports, there has been no contact with Reddy since 9.35 am.

Start by shooting the wonderful DGCA of ours. Flying a CM in a non-airworthy aircraft Bloody morons.

Reports suggest that the helicopter has landed safely in Kurnool district but the chief minister's whereabouts are still a mystery.

The helicopter lost contact with Air Traffic Controller at the Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad and since then there has not been any contact with the Chief Minister.

Some sources claimed that Reddy had been traced and taken to Kurnool guest house after a four-hour frantic search.

Andhra Pradesh Police is continuing a search for the missing chopper of Chief Minister Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy.

According to police sources, a civilian copter has been pushed in to the search operation. nconfirmed reports said the Army has also joined the search operation.

Panic was created around Wednesday noon as Reddy was reported untraceable for nearly four hours.

Reddy was on his way to Chittor, by the chopper which initial reports said had made an emergency landing near Kurnool due to inclement weather.

The chopper took off at 8.45 a.m. for Chittor and was scheduled to arrive here at 10.45 a.m, sources said.

The chopper was said to have landed in the middle of thick forest, said to be affected by the Maoist activities.

The Chief Minister's Office (CMO) confirmed the receiving a message of the emergency landing of the chopper, but nothing thereafter.

Till now, no one has confirmed the movements of Reddy.

The Union Home Ministry is monitoring the search operations, as Kurnool is a Naxal affected area.

Air Traffic Control (ATC) sources said the chopper went off the radar due to heavy rains.

The CMO maintains there is no need to worry, as the area has no mobile connectivity.

(Agencies)

Andhra Pradesh CM goes missing in Kurnool - Yahoo! India News

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No chance of YSR in a guest house or he is in for it.

No i don't think he has been traced. Its heavily raining in that area and atm no one has any clue. Last i saw, they have flown a Sukhoi over the area. ISRO can't help with satellite imagery due to the heavy cloud cover over the area.

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Behcare Vadiyon Main nikle the.. helikopter lekar.. vadiyon main hi kho gaye ...







I m sorry for my J/K.. i cant help.. dats me ...

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Pretty soon you'll see Safin vanish I'll post a thread on FE

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true

Chopper found after 24 hours.
5 dead bodies, no survivors.
CM, his security officer, Pricipal Secretary and 2 pilots dead

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Damn that is a very serious loss My condolence to his family & those officers families .

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Sad thing to happen to a good CM

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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy will be given a state funeral on Friday while the national flag will fly at half mast in Delhi and all state capitals on Thursday and Friday, the government announced.

Information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni told reporters after a cabinet meeting here that the tricolour would also fly at half mast all over Andhra Pradesh in tribute to the chief minister who died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.

His body was found on Thursday morning in a dense forest in Kurnool district where the accident took place in bad weather.

All central government offices in Andhra Pradesh will remain shut on Friday, Soni added.

Thursday's cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, observed a two-minute silence in memory of the chief minister.

The body of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash, will be brought to Hyderabad from Kurnool by 5 pm, finance minister K Rosaiah said on Thursday.

Rosaiah told reporters here that an autopsy will be conducted on all the five bodies that were found in the Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district.

The 60-year-old chief minister, popularly known as YSR, was going from Hyderabad to Chittoor, 588 km away, for a mass contact programme when his helicopter went missing in bad weather around 9.30 am on Wednesday in the dense forest range.

Flying with YSR, who this May steered the Congress to a second stint in power, were his principal secretary P Subramaniam, chief security officer ASC Wesley and pilots Group Captain SK Bhatia and Captain MS Reddy.

"All the five bodies were charred beyond recognition," Rosaiah said. He added that there was a possibility that "there was a fire" after the crash.

After being brought to Hyderabad, YSR's body will be taken to the chief minister's camp office in Begumpet. The bodies of the other four people would be taken to their respective native places.

The chief minister’s body will be kept at the Lal Bahadur stadium in Hyderabad from 10 am Friday to enable people to pay their last respects.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and several union ministers are expected to arrive here tomorrow.

On Friday, at 1 pm, YSR's body will be taken to Pulivendula, his native town in Kadapa district, where he will be cremated with state honours.

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The helicopter carrying Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy from Hyderabad to Chittoor yesterday deviated 18 km from its path towards east, near Rudrakoduru in the Nallamala forest range in Kurnool district, before it hit a cliff and crashed. "The chopper hit the cliff, crashed and exploded.

All the five persons in the ill-fated helicopter were burnt to death," state Finance Minister K Rosaiah and Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy said here today. The chopper might have drifted from its path because of a large cloud formation due to inclement weather and ended up hitting the cliff, they said.

Except the tail portion, the body of the Bell-430 helicoper of AP Aviation Corporation was reduced to bits and pieces in the mishap. The helicopter crashed 10 km away from Rudrakoduru on a hostile terrain and army commandos had to slither down with the help of a rope from a rescue helicopter.

"Initially three bodies were traced and then the fourth one. It took a while to locate the fifth body.

We have identified the bodies from the dresses," Director General of Police S S P Yadav said. .

Reddy's chopper had deviated from route, hit a cliff - Yahoo! India News

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