3 Coast Guard Personnel Missing As Chopper Makes Emergency Landing in Arabian Sea

Porbandar: Three personnel of the Indian Coast Guard went missing when their Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea late Monday night during a rescue operation off the coast of Porbandar in Gujarat.

Out of the four persons in the chopper, only one has been rescued. “Indian Coast Guard has deployed four ships and 2 aircraft for the rescue operation,” a post of Coast Guard said.

The helicopter was dispatched at 11 pm on September 2, to evacuate an injured crew member from the Motor Tanker Hari Leela off the Porbandar coast in Gujarat.

In a statement, the Indian Coast Guard said, “Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) which saved 67 lives during recent cyclonic weather in Gujarat was launched around 2300 hours yesterday for medical evacuation of a seriously injured crew onboard Indian Flagged Motor Tanker Hari Leela, about 45 kms from Porbandar into the sea, in response to a request received from the Master of the vessel”.