India, Oct. 30 -- 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 while flying from Badrinath to Sahastradhara in Dehradun amid adverse weather conditions, officials said.

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

The six people on board were identified as pilot Capt Himanshu Sabharwal, 48, a Delhi resident, and passengers Pratapa, 41, Arun Salunke, 44, V B Shankar Gowda, 39...