CDS General Bipin Rawat to YS Rajasekhara Reddy: Prominent Indians who died in air crashes
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SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE: One of the first instances was freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose in 1945 in Taiwan, although there has been some controversy over his death. (Photo | PTI)SANJAY GANDHI: Sanjay Gandhi, the younger son of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was killed in 1980 when a glider he was flying crashed after taking off from the Safdarjung airport in Delhi. (Photo | EPS)SURENDRA NATH: Punjab Governor Surendra Nath and nine members of his family were killed when the government's Super-King aircraft crashed into high mountains in bad weather in 1994 in Himachal Pradesh. Nath was then also the acting Governor of Himachal. (Photo | Twitter)YS RAJASEKHARA REDDY: Another air accident was the crash of a helicopter in which Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy was onboard. The chopper of YSR crashed in a forest while flying in a Bell 430 to Chitoor district in Andhra Pradesh. His body was traced 27 hours after the helicopter went missing in 2009. (Photo | EPS)MADHAVRAO SCINDIA: Senior Congress leader, Madhavrao Scindia was killed in a Cessna aircraft crash in 2001 while travelling to Kanpur to address a rally. (Photo | EPS)GMC BALAYOGI: Lok Sabha Speaker and Telugu Desam leader GMC Balayogi also died in a chopper crash in 2002 in Andhra Pradesh. (Photo | Twitter)OP JINDAL: OP Jindal, Haryana's then power minister and a leading industrialist, and state agriculture minister Surendra Singh were killed when their chopper developed a technical snag and went down near Saharanpur in 2005. (Photo | Twitter)DORJEE KHANDU: Five days after the helicopter that he was using went missing, Arunachal Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu was found dead near the China border in 2011. (Photo | PTI)
