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
Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto
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
Erlic Pinto
…1963) was an Air officer in the Indian Air Force. He was the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) Western Air Command when he was killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash. He served in the IAF from 1940 until his death in 1963. He was the theatre air commander commanding the air operations during the Annexation of Goa…
An IAF Alouette III helicopter similar to the one involved
Bust of Lt Gen Daulet Singh in the park named for him in Shimla.