Raisi's Death Brings Back Memories of YSR Copter Crash
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: It was business as usual in Secretariat, the seat of power of the erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh, on September 2, 2009, till the news about the helicopter carrying then Chief Minister Dr Y.S. The C block where the Chief Minister’s Office was located engulfed in silence and disbelief but everyone present were hoping that Dr Reddy, fondly referred to as YSR, for whom facing head-on the rough and tumble of life was not new, would emerge out of the dense Nallamala forest safely. The reports on May 19 of the copter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi going missing, and the news of his death in a crash in mountains on Monday, reminded several people in the two Telugu states of the incident involving YSR. “I still wish the crash involving YSR would not have happened as the socio-political spectrum of Andhra Pradesh, which was later bifurcated and the state of Telangana was born, was never the same,” says former bureaucrat K. Prabhakar Reddy. The Centre, Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring Karnataka launched massive and perhaps country’s biggest air, land and satellite search operations to locate YSR’s missing copter.
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