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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/after-string-of-accidents-metallurgy-flaws-identified-in-alh-dhruv-helicopters-report-11688013067189.html After string of accidents, metallurgy flaws identified in ALH Dhruv helicopters: Report 1 min read 29 Jun 2023, 10:45 AM IST Edited By...

Sad indeed. Who is responsible for the maintenance and certification of these helicopters?

Visited only the airshow. Can't do the business section yet. :-(

One pic from yesterday. ........ I've visited all the previous aero-India shows. I must say that all the platforms look very lethal and the controls seems very stable. The only thing that impressed me as much was the tail-slip of Su30 and 300ft-15000ft straight up of F-16 LCH actually showed...

Thats the rear side where the rope is tied in this picture. In the one where the mishap happened, the boom was on the side door.

Does not look like quality issue here. Either the specification itself was improper/insufficient to handle the stress put on it OR the user was not aware of the limitations.

Thanks. How did you figure that out? Would help me the next time. Does HAL work on Mi-8 and Mi-17 too?

More chopper spotting. This time ALH (correct me if am wrong though)

The article itself was not interesting. But the lead in picture was that of Dhruv ... so feel good factor ;-)

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@abingdonboy guess where the picture you got of Marina ended up Thought Rudra is not in the helicopter list, the article's main picture carries it! http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g2977/most-important-helicopters The 15 Most Important Helicopters of All Time Airplanes rules the skies...

That would be its sibling HAL Dhruv From Wiki "While flight testing the Light Combat Helicopter, a modified version of HAL Dhruv, the Indian Army came to the conclusion that without making any major modifications to the Dhruv air-frame, an armed variant can also be developed and delivered to...