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<\/div>\nPilot Anil Singh had expressed concern over his daughter’s health a day before Kedarnath Chopper tragedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“Take care of my daughter. She is unwell,” were the last words of helicopter pilot Anil Singh when he spoke to his wife a day before he was killed along with six pilgrims when his chopper crashed into a hill in Uttarakhand on Tuesday due to poor visibility.<\/p>\n
Mr Singh (57) was living in a posh housing society in the Andheri suburb of the metropolis and is survived by his wife Shireen Anandita and daughter Firoza Singh.<\/p>\n
The ill-fated six-seater chopper — Bell 407 (VT-RPN) — operated by the city-based Aryan Aviation — was ferrying pilgrims from Kedarnath temple to Guptkashi when it crashed into a hill due to poor visibility, bursting into flames at around 11.45 am at Dev Darshini in Garud Chatti, Rudraprayag District Disaster Management Officer Nandan Singh said.<\/p>\n
Anandita said she and her daughter will be leaving for New Delhi to perform the last rites of her husband.<\/p>\n
“His last call to us was yesterday (Monday). My daughter is not keeping well. He told me to take care of her,” Anandita, who is a film writer, told PTI over the phone.<\/p>\n
Originally a resident of East Delhi’s Shahadra locality, Mr Singh was living in Mumbai for the last 15 years.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, an official from the Uttarakhand police confirmed that the pilot killed in the crash, Singh, hailed from Mumbai.<\/p>\n
Anandita, however, said she had no “complaint against anyone as an accident is an accident”.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the hill state always experiences inclement weather, she said.<\/p>\n
Teams of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and aviation regulator DGCA will be probing the helicopter crash, according to a senior official.<\/p>\n
Aryan Aviation had come under the regulatory scanner and was fined Rs 5 lakh recently by the directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for certain violations. This was the only 6-seater helicopter in the company’s fleet of five choppers, according to the DGCA website.<\/p>\n
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