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Article: Hunt for Reddy continues in vain.
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- Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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forest area, over which the aircraft was flying when it went missing, is more than 250 km from the state capital.
There was no radio contact either with the chopper once it lost touch with the air traffic control, or from any of the passengers. What baffled security agencies was the complete silence from the chief minister and the officials accompanying him -- principal secretary P. Subrahmanyam and chief security officer ASC Wesley -- even though they were carrying satellite phones.
On Wednesday, the chief minister had preferred the Bell 430 chopper to the newer Agusta AW139 helicopter belonging to the state government. ...