On Friday, 22 November 1963, an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the Indian Air Force crashed in Poonch district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The air
An IAF Alouette III helicopter similar to the one involved
Bust of Lt Gen Daulet Singh in the park named for him in Shimla.
Erlic Pinto
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Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto, PVSM was an Air officer in the Indian Air Force. He was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Air Command when he was killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Fo
1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
…air officer and a brigadier. Among those killed in the crash were Lieutenant General Daulet Singh, Lieutenant General Bikram Singh and Air Vice Marshal Erlic Pinto and the pilot Flight Lieutenant S. S. Sodhi. The electricity and water supply to the town of Poonch came through a channel from Betar Nullah. In October…
Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto