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India's top military chief among 13 killed in air force helicopter crash in Himachal Pradesh A top Indian Air Force general and 12 other soldiers were killed when a military helicopter crashed in the mountains in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, the government said. Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, the country's most senior military commander, said the helicopter carrying 37 people went down near Palampur, a town in Himachal Pradesh, as it was bringing reinforcements to a nearby base. "It crashed around 7.30 am when the work was on to take the reinforcements from Palampur to the Siachen Glacier. It was a standard helicopter. It had 37 people on board," Dhanoa said. There were no survivors, he said. Kathua & Samba district in Jammu & Kashmir on high alert after military chopper goes missing. Search and rescue operations underway pic.twitter.com/b8Z6o1h2jU — ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2018 Three Air Force personnel were injured in the crash a