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Katra crash pilot’s picture wrong: SSP

JAMMU:Reasi SSP Sujit Kumar today said the published picture of the woman pilot who was killed in a chopper crash in Katra while ferrying six pilgrims to Vaishno Devi shrine yesterday was wrong.

Sumita Vijayn

Tribune News Service

JAMMU, NOVEMBER 24

Reasi SSP Sujit Kumar today said the published picture of the woman pilot who was killed in a chopper crash in Katra while ferrying six pilgrims to Vaishno Devi shrine yesterday was wrong.

The SSP released the correct picture of Sumita Vijayn, saying: "This is the real picture."

The woman who was identified as dead pilot yesterday was Sumita’s namesake and had trained at ‘Indian Airlines Ideal School’. She wrote on Facebook today: "Dear all, please do not be overwhelmed with ths rubbish by media!! I m very much alive and breathing!!"

According to her Facebook account, she lives in Dubai and originally belongs to Thrissur (Trichur) in Kerala. The woman pilot who was killed yesterday also belongs to Kerala.

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