By IANS
Raipur : There was no trace of the Chhattisgarh government’s helicopter Maina Sunday, a day after it went missing with four people on board, even as an army helicopter searched Madhya Pradesh forests.
“The chopper is traceless. The army launched an operation Sunday and searched a vast area of Madhya Pradesh the whole day,” Chief Minister Raman Singh told reporters here in the evening.
The chopper, which had gone to Bhopal for some mandatory technical checks, lost contact with the air traffic control half an hour after taking off from the Madhya Pradesh capital for Raipur at 12.30 p.m.
A chopper normally takes two and a half hours for the journey between Bhopal and Raipur.
Singh added that it had possibly gone missing somewhere in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh.
The helicopter piloted by Captain A.S. Sidhu and Captain Vikram Savekar was carrying a technician and an engineer.