Indian Army grounds ALH Dhruv fleet following May 4 crash in J&Okay

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Indian Army has decided to flooring its fleet of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv helicopter fleet, following the crash landing of the Army Aviation Helicopter throughout the Kashmir valley on Thursday, killing a technician and injuring two pilots.

The full fleet will bear “checks and procedures” as prescribed by the producer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The closing clearance for the fleet to get airborne moreover will come from HAL.

Thursday’s was the third incident before now two months, by which the Dhruv helicopter which was on an operational mission made a precautionary landing on the banks of the Marua river throughout the J&Okay’s Kishtwar space.

The pilots had reported a technical fault to the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) and proceeded for a precautionary landing. Two pilots and a technician had been on board and had been rescued. Later the technician misplaced his life throughout the hospital. The incident adopted a courtroom of inquiry

The Army had allowed a select number of helicopters, along with the one which met with the accident, to fly after clearing the entire checks and procedures. These procedures had been specified by the HAL.

The flying operations of your total fleet of ALH Dhruv with the armed forces along with these with the Coast Guard was grounded after the March 8 Navy chopper accident off the coast of Mumbai.

As reported by The New Indian Express, the Indian Navy has not started its ALH’s flying operations. The ALH of IAF which have undergone the checks which had been instituted by HAL after the Navy and Coast Guard incidents in Mar 23 are persevering with with operations.

As per the IAF, the helicopters which are current course of these checks shall be cleared for flying after completion of the equivalent.

To date, an entire of 336 Helicopters have been produced by October 2022 with a couple of of them meeting with accidents or getting rendered unfit for flying. These helicopters can be found 4 completely completely different variations and have clocked larger than 3.9 lakh cumulative flying hours. The Indian Army for the time being has spherical 145 and has ordered an additional 25 ALH Mk III. More than 70 are with the IAF, 18 with the Navy and 20 with the Coast Guard. The choppers which have crashed this 12 months embody ones from the Navy, Coast Guard and the Army.

The indigenously designed and developed Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH-DHRUV) is a twin-engine, multi-role, multi-mission new-generation helicopter throughout the 5.5-ton weight class.  

Dhruv is “type –Certified” for Military operations by the Centre for Military Airworthiness Certification (CEMILAC) and civil operations by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Certification of the utility navy variant was achieved in 2002 and that of the civil variant was achieved in 2004. The deliveries of producing assortment helicopters commenced from 2001-02 onwards. 

NEW DELHI: The Indian Army has decided to flooring its fleet of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Dhruv helicopter fleet, following the crash landing of the Army Aviation Helicopter throughout the Kashmir valley on Thursday, killing a technician and injuring two pilots.

The full fleet will bear “checks and procedures” as prescribed by the producer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The closing clearance for the fleet to get airborne moreover will come from HAL.

Thursday’s was the third incident before now two months, by which the Dhruv helicopter which was on an operational mission made a precautionary landing on the banks of the Marua river throughout the J&Okay’s Kishtwar space.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The pilots had reported a technical fault to the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) and proceeded for a precautionary landing. Two pilots and a technician had been on board and had been rescued. Later the technician misplaced his life throughout the hospital. The incident adopted a courtroom of inquiry

The Army had allowed a select number of helicopters, along with the one which met with the accident, to fly after clearing the entire checks and procedures. These procedures had been specified by the HAL.

The flying operations of your total fleet of ALH Dhruv with the armed forces along with these with the Coast Guard was grounded after the March 8 Navy chopper accident off the coast of Mumbai.

As reported by The New Indian Express, the Indian Navy has not started its ALH’s flying operations. The ALH of IAF which have undergone the checks which had been instituted by HAL after the Navy and Coast Guard incidents in Mar 23 are persevering with with operations.

As per the IAF, the helicopters which are current course of these checks shall be cleared for flying after completion of the equivalent.

To date, an entire of 336 Helicopters have been produced by October 2022 with a couple of of them meeting with accidents or getting rendered unfit for flying. These helicopters can be found 4 completely completely different variations and have clocked larger than 3.9 lakh cumulative flying hours. The Indian Army for the time being has spherical 145 and has ordered an additional 25 ALH Mk III. More than 70 are with the IAF, 18 with the Navy and 20 with the Coast Guard. The choppers which have crashed this 12 months embody ones from the Navy, Coast Guard and the Army.

The indigenously designed and developed Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH-DHRUV) is a twin-engine, multi-role, multi-mission new-generation helicopter throughout the 5.5-ton weight class.  

Dhruv is “type –Certified” for Military operations by the Centre for Military Airworthiness Certification (CEMILAC) and civil operations by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Certification of the utility navy variant was achieved in 2002 and that of the civil variant was achieved in 2004. The deliveries of producing assortment helicopters commenced from 2001-02 onwards.