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A Pawan Hans helicopter carrying seven people made a safe emergency landing in shallow waters near Maya Bunder in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This incident marks India's third charter aircraft accident this year, but unlike previous fatal crashes, all on board were safely retrieved. Investigations into the ditching are underway.

A Pawan Hans helicopter ditched near Mayabunder in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, miraculously with all seven on board escaping unharmed. This incident follows a fatal air ambulance crash in Jharkhand just hours earlier, raising renewed concerns about aviation safety across the country. The helicopter was en route to Mayabunder when it encountered trouble shortly after takeoff.

At around 10.30am on Sunday, while his friends were still reading newspapers over a cup of tea, Rajiv Ranjan Pandey was soaring high.

While airlines operated flights with all women crew to celebrate Women’s Day, Pawan Hans Ltd (PHL), the public sector company that operates helicopters had its own quiet moment with history when its pilot Capt Mayuri Deshmukh became India’s first female offshore Pilot-in-Command.

Pawan Hans has begun exploring plans to enter the regional airline market with a fleet of small fixed-wing aircraft that can seat about 20 passengers.

Pawan Hans, India's largest helicopter-operator, has begun exploring plans to enter the regional airline market.

In a daring operation, Capt Reena Varughese piloted a Dauphin-N Pawan Hans chopper into the Maoist stronghold of Abujmarh to rescue a wounded C-60 commando. Facing the risk of mortar attack, she jumped from the hovering chopper onto rocky terrain, highlighting bravery in the eight-hour siege that resulted in five Maoists being killed.

Pawan Hans helicopter pilot Reena Varughese was among 52 women aviators honored by Indian President Droupadi Murmu for their extraordinary achievements. Varughese received recognition for her daring rescue of an injured commando in the Maoist-controlled Abujmarh forest, navigating challenging terrain and enemy fire to successfully airlift the wounded soldier to safety.

A lopsided Tropical Storm Cristobal came ashore Sunday afternoon in Louisiana but ginned up dangerous weather much farther east, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island town and spawning a tornado in Florida.

The national hurricane center declared Claudette organized enough to qualify as a named storm at 4am on Saturday, well after the storm's center of circulation had come ashore southwest of New Orleans. It was north of the city three hours later, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) as the storm plodded to the northeast at 12 mph (19 kph).

Hurricane Sally moved slowly closer to the US Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening historic floods as rain and storm-force winds started lashing the shore, and governors of four states urged people to flee the coastline.

Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds of people as it pushed inland for what could be a slow and disastrous drenching across the Deep South.

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