NRI businessman Yusuff Ali visits website of chopper crash in Kerala, meets residents

By PTI

KOCHI: Business tycoon M A Yusuff Ali on Sunday visited the residents of Panangad right here, the place his chopper had crash-landed in April this 12 months.

Yusuff Ali expressed his gratitude to Rajesh and Biji, the couple who had stepped ahead to assist him braving heavy rains on that day.

“It was Rajesh, who reached the spot first. He helped us get out of the chopper and took us to his house nearby. Biji rushed to the nearby police station and informed the police. The residents of Panangad region engaged in rescue operations without any hesitation,” Yusuff Ali instructed the media.

He spent round 20 minutes on the couple’s home and later met Peter, the proprietor of the marsh land, the place the chopper had crash-landed.

The helicopter carrying Yusuff Ali, his spouse and 4 others crash-landed at a marshy land right here at round 9 AM on April 11.

All passengers together with Yusuff Ali, who’s Chairman of worldwide retail group Lulu Group, his spouse and two different passengers together with two pilots on board the chopper owned by the corporate had been admitted to a non-public hospital right here.

“Due to the sudden deterioration of weather conditions and heavy rains, the experienced pilots decided to make precautionary landing at a safe place to prevent any risk to the life of the passengers or public at large,” Lulu Group had mentioned in a press release.

Yusuff Ali’s Abu Dhabi-based Lulu Group that owns Lulu Hypermarkets and purchasing malls, is among the high retailers within the Middle East and North African area (MENA).

It has greater than 200 Hypermarkets and Supermarkets in Gulf nations, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and employs over 58,000 individuals from varied nations and has logistics centres within the US, the UK, Spain, South Africa, the Philippines, Thailand and so forth.