Badrinath helicopter crash LIVE updates: All 6 on board dead in Badrinath helicopter crash; Army spotted rapid descent

Badrinath helicopter crash LIVE updates: A helicopter carrying six, including the pilot, crashed near Joshimath in Uttarakhand today afternoon. The helicopter, operated by Trans Bharat Aviation Pvt Ltd, took off from Badrinath at around 1.14 pm for Sahastradhara in Dehradun.

View of a crashed civil helicopter operated by Trans Bharat Aviation in the Hathi Parvat area while flying from Shri Badrinath Dham to the Sahastradhara helipad in Dehradun, in Chamoli on Friday. (ANI Photo)

Badrinath helicopter crash LIVE updates: Six people, including the pilot, were killed after a helicopter carrying five passengers crashed near Chayee village in the Jyotirmath area of Chamoli district on Friday. The helicopter was flying from Badrinath to Sahastradhara in Dehradun when it crashed amid adverse weather conditions, officials said....Read More

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• 30 Oct 2026, 06:50:33 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Army team confirms all six dead at Uttarakhand helicopter crash site

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: According to information received from officers of the 9th Independent Mountain Brigade, an Army team reached the crash site at around 3.30 pm. The team confirmed that all six people on board the helicopter had died at the spot.

• 30 Oct 2026, 06:40:16 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Uttarakhand helicopter crash adds to series of aviation mishaps in the state

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Uttarakhand helicopter crash adds to series of aviation mishaps in the state:

  - June 7, 2025: A private helicopter carrying five pilgrims to Kedarnath made a crash landing on the Guptkashi-Gaurikund highway near Barasu in Rudraprayag district. All occupants survived.

  - May 17, 2025: An AIIMS Rishikesh helicopter ambulance, dispatched to Kedarnath to airlift a patient suffering from respiratory distress, made a crash landing near the Kedarnath helipad.

  - May 12, 2025: A helicopter's rotor blade struck a vehicle at the Badrinath helipad, narrowly averting a major accident.

  -May 8, 2025: Six people were killed after a helicopter en route to Gangotri Dham crashed in the Gangnani area of Uttarkashi district.

  - April 2023: A senior official of the Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority (UCADA) was killed after being struck by a helicopter's tail rotor at Kedarnath.

  - October 2022: A helicopter carrying six devotees and a pilot crashed near Kedarnath, killing all seven people on board.

  - April 2018: An Indian Air Force cargo helicopter caught fire while landing at Kedarnath.

  - June 25, 2013: An Indian Air Force Mi-17 V5 helicopter engaged in flood-relief operations crashed in Uttarakhand, killing 20 personnel, including five IAF personnel, six ITBP personnel and nine NDRF personnel.

  - July 24, 2013: A private helicopter carrying relief material crashed near Garud Chatti in the Kedarnath valley, killing the pilot and co-pilot.

• 30 Oct 2026, 06:14:06 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Two teams deployed to search for missing helicopter carrying six people in Uttarakhand

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Two teams comprising police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and Army personnel have been deployed from Pandukeshwar and Joshimath to search for a helicopter carrying six people, including a pilot and five passengers, that went missing near Joshimath in Uttarakhand on Friday, Chamoli Superintendent of Police (SP) Surjeet Singh Panwar said.

  In a self-recorded video statement, Panwar said the helicopter, operated by Trans Bharat Aviation, took off from the Badrinath civil helipad for the Sahastradhara helipad in Dehradun at approximately 1:12 pm on October 30. Its transmission link with the radar was lost near Joshimath two minutes later, at 1:14 pm.

  “According to personnel at a nearby Army post, the helicopter was observed heading into the valley, about one kilometre above the Bhandakand Temple near Pandukeshwar,” the SP said.

  Search and rescue operations are underway, he added.

  Panwar said a drone had also been deployed from Gopeshwar to assist in the search operation. Two teams, one approaching from Pandukeshwar and the other from Joshimath, comprising police, SDRF and Army personnel, have been dispatched to locate the missing helicopter.

• 30 Oct 2026, 05:59:10 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Pilot, five passengers killed in Uttarakhand helicopter crash identified

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: The six people killed in the helicopter crash were identified as pilot Capt Himanshu Sabharwal, 48, a resident of Delhi, and five passengers from Karnataka — Pratapa, 41, Arun Salunke, 44, V.B. Shankar Gowda, 39, Sudhir K., 50, and HS Nataraja, 51.

• 30 Oct 2026, 05:25:30 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Bodies of all 6, including pilot, recovered from crash site

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: The bodies of all six people, including the pilot, were recovered on Friday after a helicopter carrying five passengers crashed near Chayee village in the Jyotirmath area of Chamoli district. The helicopter was flying from Badrinath to Sahastradhara in Dehradun when it crashed amid adverse weather conditions, officials said.

  Joint teams of the police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the Army were engaged in search and rescue operations at the site. Officials were also working to transport the bodies from the remote crash site, located in difficult mountainous terrain, to the nearest motorable road.

• 30 Oct 2026, 05:19:01 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Helicopter crash sees Army, NDRF, SDRF launch rescue operation

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Officials said the aerial operation involves two helicopters - a ‘reccy’ helicopter to survey the area and a ‘retriever’ helicopter to assist in the rescue.

  Teams from the Army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police and district administration have also been dispatched to the suspected crash site. Another SDRF team has been sent from Sahastradhara as authorities conduct simultaneous ground and aerial search operations to reach the helicopter and its occupants.

  The helicopter, operated by Trans Bharat Aviation, was flying from Badrinath Dham to the Sahastradhara helipad when the Army's Signal Centre team spotted smoke rising from the area and observed the aircraft descending rapidly.

• 30 Oct 2026, 05:09:57 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Authorities alerted around 2.14 pm

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: According to Disaster Management and Rehabilitation secretary Vinod Kumar Suman, the Chamoli District Disaster Management Officer informed authorities about the incident at around 2.14 pm.

• 30 Oct 2026, 05:07:57 PM IST

  Badrinath Helicopter Crash LIVE Updates: Chopper missing after crash

  A helicopter, flying from Badrinath to Dehradun, crashed near Joshimath today. It was carrying five pilgrims when it lost communication while flying over the Joshimath valley. The chopper is missing since the crash and a search operation has been launched to trace the aircraft.