By IANS,
Noida : The family of Captain A.K. Tiwari just can’t believe that he is no more. They are still coming to terms with the news of his death in the chopper crash in Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
The Noida house of Captain Tiwari plunged into grief, waiting for the body to arrive.
“We just can not believe his absence. He was such a wonderful person,” Col. Shashank Tiwari, a relative said.
Captain Tiwari joined the Indian Army in 1971 and became a helicopter pilot in 1975. He took premature retirement from the Army in 1993 and joined Mesco, a Middle East company, following which he got associated with the Thapar Group, where he took flights to Vietnam.
Capt. Tiwari finally joined the Pawan Hans Helicopters around one-and-a-half-years ago, as it was a semi-government firm. He had been flying between Guwahati and Tawang.
“He had an outstanding career and was a bright candidate. He was a highly sought man in the aviation circles,” said a relative.
Capt. A.K. Tiwari is survived by a son Shalabh Tiwari, an Air India pilot, who is married, daughter Asha, who works with HCL and is unmarried and wife Madhuri Tiwari.
Seventeen people, including three crew members, were killed and six others injured when a Pawan Hans Mi17 chopper caught fire and plunged into a gorge in Tawang district on Tuesday. The chopper was flying to Tawang from Guwahati.