Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) clarified on Thursday that it was because of the fault of pilots that Dr.YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died. The CBI, first time in the history, has released a 17 minute animation film on the accident of YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s helicopter which was released in Delhi on Thursday.
According to them, the journey of the helicopter in the Nallamala forest was safe until 8.58 am of September 2, 2009. The real problem started from 9.12 am and the pilot Bhatia had recognized nimbus clouds on radar and at 9.18 am the pilot made up his mind not to go forward instead he went left. Unfortunately at 9.20.59 am the helicopter developed a snag of oil transmitter problem and the co-pilot was unable to trace a paper regarding it till 9.28.58 am. At 9.27.24 am the co-pilot had identified that the helicopter was in danger and near to the earth and cried ‘Go around’. These were the words recorded finally in the cockpit voice recorder.
The CBI has finally come to a conclusion that there was no conspiracy behind the accident and it was purely accidental. Except for pilots no other was responsible for this accident and it was totally unfortunate.
Whatever the doubts expressed by some anxious people, majority thought that it was nothing but accidental. What could have been possible is that the pilots could have strongly told YSR that weather was not feasible for travel.