{"id":25422,"date":"2026-02-25T04:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25422"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:02:22","slug":"indian-coast-guard-responds-to-helicopter-crash-off-andaman-and-nicobar-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25422","title":{"rendered":"Indian Coast Guard responds to helicopter crash off Andaman and Nicobar Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Indian Coast Guard responds to helicopter crash off Andaman and Nicobar Islands<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Indian Coast Guard has successfully rescued all seven people on board a commercial helicopter after it was forced to crash-land into the sea just off India&#8217;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after 09:30 local time on Tuesday, February 24, when the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing near Mayabander Harbour due to technical fault.<\/p>\n<p>Coast guard personnel as well as some local fishermen who witnessed the landing immediately deployed aboard small boats and headed for the crash site to render assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Both pilots and all five passengers, including a three-month-old infant, were pulled out of the water and evacuated to shore, where they underwent initial medical examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued individuals were all later brought to hospital in Mayabander for further treatment, though local authorities have confirmed that none of the helicopter&#8217;s seven occupants had suffered injuries from the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Pawan Hans, the operator of the helicopter, said that the aircraft was on a scheduled flight out of Port Blair on South Andaman Island when the malfunction occurred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Will Xavier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/emergency-services\/search-and-rescue\/indian-coast-guard-responds-to-helicopter-crash-off-andaman-and-nicobar-islands\">Go to baird maritime<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Indian Coast Guard has successfully rescued all seven people on board a commercial helicopter after it was forced to crash-land into the sea just off India&#8217;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred shortly after 09:30 local time on Tuesday, February 24, when the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing near Mayabander Harbour due to technical fault.<\/p>\n<p>Coast guard personnel as well as some local fishermen who witnessed the landing immediately deployed aboard small boats and headed for the crash site to render assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Both pilots and all five passengers, including a three-month-old infant, were pulled out of the water and evacuated to shore, where they underwent initial medical examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The rescued individuals were all later brought to hospital in Mayabander for further treatment, though local authorities have confirmed that none of the helicopter&#8217;s seven occupants had suffered injuries from the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Pawan Hans, the operator of the helicopter, said that the aircraft was on a scheduled flight out of Port Blair on South Andaman Island when the malfunction occurred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,63,28],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baird-maritime","category-coast-guard","category-search-and-rescue","tag-baird-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}