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'Pawan Hans Are Flying Coffins': ONGC Employees Write To Management Month After Chopper Crash

This comes more than a month after a Pawan Hans helicopter crashed while heading towards ONGC's north field with seven persons onboard. Five senior ONGC officials and two pilots died in the accident.

'Pawan Hans Are Flying Coffins': ONGC Employees Write To Management Month After Chopper Crash
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The employees of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) have written a letter to the top management asking for enhancement in safety measures while flying바카라 웹사이트to and from offshore sites on board the state-owned helicopter service.

This comes more than a month after a Pawan Hans helicopter crashed while heading towards ONGC's north field with seven persons onboard. Five senior ONGC officials and two pilots died in the accident.

In the letter,바카라 웹사이트the Petroleum Employees Union (PEU) wrote:바카라 웹사이트“After the occurrence of the tragedy, every crew member performing offshore duty and their family members are under tremendous pressure regarding바카라 웹사이트safety바카라 웹사이트of their son/husband/father on offshore duty." The subject line of the바카라 웹사이트letter read, “Flying Coffins”, reported바카라 웹사이트.

Speaking to the newspaper, Nitin Khanvilkar, General Secretary of the PEU, which represents nearly 2500 of the 4500 employees of the western offshore unit (Mumbai) of the Maharatna oil firm,바카라 웹사이트 said the employees were not against Pawan Hans, but wanted better safety measures.

An official ONGC statement, said that measures have been taken to enhance the security. “We have taken measures to ensure safety and security of the employees working offshore. In meetings between the employees and Director, Off Shore, the concerns of employees were addressed,” the official statement read, according to the newspaper report.

The chopper, Dauphin N3, bearing registration number VT-PWA, had taken off from Juhu aerodrome on바카라 웹사이트January 13. The chopper was scheduled to land at the designated oil rig at Mumbai High.

The ONGC has key oil and gas fields off the Mumbai coast and Pawan Hans helicopters routinely ferry company employees and officers to the oil installations that are situated as far as 160바카라 웹사이트kilometres바카라 웹사이트from the coastline.

The field in the offshore바카라 웹사이트include바카라 웹사이트Mumbai High, the nation's largest oil field바카라 웹사이트and바카라 웹사이트Bassein fields, the largest gas field.

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