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YSR Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister went missing for 13 hours. 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.
Helicopter search operations to locate Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has been called off because of light and weather conditions and will resume on Thursday morning, Home Minister P Chidambaram said in the Capital.
Almost 16 hours after the chopper went missing somewhere in Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district, the state ministers are hoping that he is safe. They believe that the chopper might have been forced to land in some inaccessible area due to bad weather.
Officials in the chief minister's office are also hopeful. Their hopes are based on the fact that an Indian Air Force aircraft which flew over the area did not pick up any signals which indicate a crash.
According to chief secretary P. Ramakant Reddy, the helicopter was equipped with Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT), capable of automatic transmission on a frequency of 121.5 and 243 mega hertz which would have activated in crash landing or in case of any unforeseen eventuality.
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