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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Navy chopper crash-lands in sea near Gateway Express News Service Mumbai, February 28: An Indian Navy Sea King helicopter on Wednesday evening crash-landed in the sea off the Sundar Nagari area of South Mumbai, near the Gateway of India and close to the Naval airbase INS Kunjali. The four-member crew survived. It's suspected that **engine failure** led to the incident. Fortunately, the chopper landed in shallow waters, allowing the crew to swim out. Efforts to pull the helicopter out were on till late evening. Defence spokesperson Captain Abhay Lambate told reporters: "There were two pilots and two air crew in the helicopter. They were not injured as the helicopter crash-landed in water while **they were trying to force-land it at the naval air base**. It's too premature to say what cause the incident. The Navy will inquire into the matter." The Navy personnel aboard the helicopter were on a routine** training flight**. Some residents of Sundar Nagari saw the helicopter landing in the sea around 5.30 pm and called up The Indian Express within minutes of the incident. A crane was called around 7 pm to pull the helicopter out of the sea, said Lambate. By 9 pm, almost two-thirds of the helicopter was out of the water. Defence officials refused to comment on the condition of the helicopter, saying that they would have to first thoroughly examine it. Soon after the incident, police cordoned off the area. http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=224574 All reports state that the crash occurred while the chopper was trying to land on/at INS Kunjali the name of the naval air station. This led one report to say that the chopper was trying to land on a war ship! Maybe some of the reports of naval plane crashes "at sea" off Goa may be mixed up with "INS Hansa" the naval name of Dabolim airport. The other point is that training flights seem to take place everywhere -- Dabolim, Colaba, etc etc. Maybe its something which is done when there is nothing else to do. In short, TP.