Media Eye News Bureau: Officials have confirmed that one more body was recovered from the spot where a Pawan Hans chopper had crashed, on Saturday, off the Mumbai coast minutes after it took off from the Juhu airport .
Seven people, including five ONGC officers, on board, in that chopper and five of the bodies had been identified after it were brought to Nanavati Hospital that evening.
Family members of Capt. V C Katosh, who were rushed on to Cooper Hospital, identified him soon after the body was brought over there.
Bodies of four ONGC officers- all deputy general managers – PN Sreenivasan, R Saravanan, Jose Antony and Pankaj Garg- were identified on Sunday, along with Captain Ramesh Ohatkar, one of the two pilots.
VK Bindulal Babu, another ONGC deputy general manager, was also on board the chopper along with second pilot VC Katoch.
Officials said that DNA samples were taken from Bindulal Babu's brother, who visited Cooper Hospital, and these will be sent to Kalina forensic lab.
Meanwhile ONGC and Pawan Hans Ltd have been continuously assessing the situation as a high-level delegation from both teams visited Coast Guard western region headquarters to draw plans to recover the debris.
ONGC and Indian Coast Guard along with the Indian Navy have been engaged in an extensive search operation soon after the helicopter crashed off the Mumbai coast after took off for state-owned ONGC's soil installation in the Arabian sea on Saturday.
