By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, August 3 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and four other persons were killed in the helicopter that crashed in the Nallamala Hills in bad weather on Wednesday losing radio contact an hour after take off from Hyderabad.
The bodies of Dr Rajasekhar Reddy (60),his Principal Secretary S Subramanyam, Chief Security Officer A S C Wesley, pilot Group Captain S K Bhatia and co-pilot M S Reddy were found on Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles east of Kurnool.
His Bell 430 chopper went down in bad weather.Army commandos recovered the bodies of all the five people including the Chief Minister who were on board the twin-engine Bell chopper.
An Indian Air Force helicopter had on Thursday morning located the mangled remains of the helicopter.
The news of the tragedy filtered out after a meeting of the Congress core group at the Prime Minister's residence, but fears had been growing since Wednesday night when search operations to locate the missing chopper were unsuccessful.
The helicopter took off at 8.35 am from the old Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister was on his way to Chittoor, for a function when his helicopter went missing in inclement weather around 9.30 am on Wednesday in the dense Nallamalla forests.
Police said the bodies were identified by their clothes as they were charred beyond recognition in the crash.
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