Two pilots are missing after a Pawan Hans helicopter crashed this evening. There were no passengers on board the helicopter when the accident took place off the coast of Mumbai
The chopper crashed at around 7:30 pm while carrying out night landing practice at Bombay High, a mid-sea oil rig run by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India (ONGC). ONGC hires Pawan Hans helicopters to ferry its officials from Mumbai to its offshore oilfield.