India, Oct. 30 -- All six people, including the pilot, on board a Trans Bharat Aviation Pvt Ltd helicopter were killed as the chopper crashed near Jyotirmath in Chamoli district on Friday afternoon. The helicopter took off from Badrinath at 1.12 pm and lost contact while flying over the Jyotirmath valley two minutes later.

The district disaster management officer, NK Joshi, said that the helicopter bearing call sign VT-HCX lost communication while flying over Jyotirmath valley and its tracking system stopped showing its location.

Surjit Singh Panwar, Superintendent of Police, Chamoli, said that the deceased were identified as Captain Himanshu Sabharwal (48) from Delhi, Pratapa (41) Arun Salunke (44), V B Shankar Gowda (39) Karnataka, Su...