A policeman inspects an Army chopper that made an emergency landing at Maili village in Hoshiarpur on Friday. photo: malkiat Singh
A policeman inspects an Army chopper that made an emergency landing at Maili village in Hoshiarpur on Friday. photo: malkiat Singh

Hoshiarpur, March 11

An Army chopper carrying four Army men was forced to make an emergency landing in a wheat field in Maili village near Mahilpur after it developed a technical snag, the police said on Friday.

“The helicopter made an emergency landing in the village at around 12:30 pm,” Hoshiapur Senior Superintendent of Police Dhanpreet Kaur said.

All four onboard are safe, although two suffered minor in injuries.

“There was no damage to the chopper,” the SSP said.

With four crew members on board, the chopper took off from Jalandhar cantonment on routine sortie today at about 11 am.

Major Guriqbal Singh and Lt Col B.S. Chohan received minor injuries in the incident, DSP (Chabbewal) Hardeep Kumar said, adding that they were given first aid.

Pilot Aditya Verma and Co-pilot Ajit remained unhurt, the police said, adding that they were taken to Jalandhar by Army personnel. — TNS/ PTI