An Indian Air Force helicopter, with Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on board, crashed near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on Wednesday. The CDS, his wife and 11 others died in the accident. "The IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter was airborne from Sulur for Wellington. There were a total of 14 people, including CDS Gen Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat, Brig LS Lidder, Lt Col H Singh, Wg Cdr PS Chauhan, Sqn Ldr K Singh, JWO Das, JWO Pradeep A, Hav Satpal, Nk Gursewak Singh, Nk Jitender, L/Nk Vivek and L/Nk S Teja lost their lives in the crash. IAF Group Captain Varun Singh, the sole survivor of the IAF chopper crash, is under treatment at the Military Hospital in Wellington. An IAF team under Air Marshal Manendra Singh has begun an investigation into the crash. A 25-member special team of IAF officers led by Wing Commander R Bhardwaj recovered the black box. The device will be handed over to the Accident Investigation Board at the Sulur base.
1. Write the abbreviation of CDS and IAF? 2. How many people died in this helicopter crash? Name them. 3. In which hospital captain Varun singh was under treatment? 4. Name the chopper crash used by IAF. 5. What is the use of black box and to whom do they handover it?
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CDS chief General Bipin Rawat, wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other persons who were on board ill-fated IAF chopper Mi-17V5 which crash-landed today in Tamil Nadu have died in the incident. The helicopter crashed in Katteri-Nanchappanchathram area near Coonoor in the hilly Nilgiris district. According to a PTI report, the chopper crashed in a forest area, reportedly due to poor visibility following heavy fog. The helicopter, carrying a few senior officials, was on its way from Sulur in Coimbatore to Defence Staff College in Wellington where Gen Rawat, along with Chief of Army Staff MM Naravane, was slated to participate in an event. The IAF said a Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the accident, involving a Mi-17VH choppper that took from the Sulur IAF Station in nearby Coimbatore.