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missing for several hours in his choopper giving anxious moments to the state administeration.

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Just a short while ago (3.10pm), Karnool SP B L Meena, had told The Times of India that the chief minister’s chopper had been located and a police team was going to escort him back to Hyderabad. The chopper had landed in Pamalupudu village in Karnool district, the SP said.

The CM is said to be safe, but the police is not yet declaring his exact whereabouts. This to prevent giving ideas to Naxalites on whose hit list, the chief minister is.



A massive operation involving 7 air force choppers has been launched to locate the aircraft.

The govt chopper carrying the Andhra C M took off at 8.45 AM and was scheduled to land at Chitoor at 10.40 AM. but, it soon lost radio contact and has been untraceble.

Reddy had left Hyderabad on a chopper at 8.30am for Tirupati accompanied by his secretary and chief security officer but after 9.25am radio contact was lost. This was when the chopper entered the thickly forested, Naxalite-infested Nallamalla hill range.

“We hope that he would be safe but we could not establish any contacts as the forest is dense and heavy rains are continuing in the area,” state Finance Minister K Roshaiah said.

AP CM is missing!!! IndiaGlitz [Wednesday, September 02, 2009]

In what is being seen as a rather shocking development, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Rajasekhar Reddy has been missing since the past few hours. As per the latest news, special CRPF battalions and other wings of the Congress party have now begun a massive hunt for the helicopter of YS in the dense forests of Nallamala. It is also said that the forest officials have roped in the ‘Chunchu’ tribes in the local forests and they have given them BSNL sim cards, mobiles and special searchlights so that they can give details from time to time. The operation is said to be on in the night as well as two special aircrafts from Bangalore that can fly at a low range have been summoned. All are hoping that YSR is safe and his whereabouts will be known soon.

2009-09-02 16:43:24

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) Wednesday afternoon joined the search for a missing helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, pressing four choppers into service, an official said.

`We have deployed four helicopters for the rescue mission. They include two Chetaks, besides one Mi-8 and one ALH (advanced light helicopter),` an IAF spokesman here said.

Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Ramakant Reddy said the chief minister remains untraced after his helicopter went missing amid bad weather on Wednesday morning.

He said the government had not been in touch with the chief minister since 9.45 a.m.

`So far we have not been able to get any confirmation about the chief minister,` he said.

`It is possible that because of the strong winds and heavy rains, it may have landed in some unfamiliar area,` he said.

`If you land in an unfamiliar forest area, getting out will be very difficult,` he added.

YSR, as the chief minister is known, on Wednesday morning took off in the helicopter from Hyderabad. It went off the radar amid inclement weather.