CM YSR is missing since 11 hours

It is official. Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy is still missing. There has been no whereabouts of YSR as of now, says Finance Minister K Rosaiah and Chief Secretary P Ramakanth Reddy.
According to them, the link between the helicopter and the government is missing. With this latest input, all the earlier reports of Chief Minister had a safe landing at Bhanumukkula near Atmakur in Kurnool district were found to be false.
Rosaiah said there was no truth in all the reports so far and several helicopters from Hyderbaad, Bangalore and Krishnapatnam are making intense search for the Chief Minsiter, but some of them had to come back because of bad weather. “We need to find out their whereabouts before the sunset,” he said, sounding an alarm.

So shocking and sad..............

I wonder what astrologers have to say, can they predict YSR' safety?

Still no news of the CM. I am very sad. But I can see only 2 possible scenarios.

1. The chopper crash landed: This is how they have lost ALL contacts including even the manual basic controls which will enable them to reach out to the nearest Air Traffic Controls (Which is Hyderabad, I think).
This will mean that there are no survivors.

2. Maoists: Unlikely that the local Maoists have such technology to hit an airborne chopper. But even if they did, I don't think they will spare his life.
I only hope its not the case, especially when he holds such a prominent post. There will be no end to the Maoists atrocities.

In both the cases, there are very less chances that he is still alive.

I am hoping for a miracle.

At least 5,000 personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force have been deployed for the search of missing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajshekhar Reddy.

The government has already set up 14 teams, each consisting of eight members (112 personnel), to search for missing Reddy and the seven-seater Bell chopper in which he was traveling to Chitoor District.


The Indian Space Research Organisation has got into the act to trace missing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

ISRO sources told rediff.com that they would be working on this case and that their Radar Imaging Satellite had been pressed into action.

The radar imaging satellite will click photographs of the area in which the chief minister is reportedly stranded, tonight, ISRO said.

Let's pray God for our CM YSR Reddy , to be safe.

is he found yet.anyone please post the news

Not been found yet. The latest news is that they had to stop the search until morning due to extreme weather conditions.

thanks rakhi for the info. was curious. pray CM is safe somewhere and found soon. i dont have access from my work so cldnt help posting here.

I have a feeling that the lightning has struck the chopper Sirila. Else, by now they would have been able to contact the nearest Air Traffic Controls.

Also, all the manual controls would have been activated within split seconds of the chopper experiencing distress and would have notified all the mechanical and the electrical failures of the chopper to the ATC.

I wonder how the emergency equipment also failed. Really these local maosits wouldn't have had anything to do with such high level equipment.

I do know that YSR has got enough and more enemies, especially after that Satyam Computers fiasco. I only hope that some high level hand isn't involved.

Apparently even the commandos are searching for him. I am fairy sure they will find him by dawn, dead or alive.

Its relatively a small forest. If the chopper had crashed into some river, then it is difficult...but even then it will only be a few more hours before they find him.

Hmmm....I saw the following news abt andhra chief minister in yahoo news. Not sure whether it's true since i haven't found the same news in none of the other publications.Hope it turns out true.

" A helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has gone missing and later he was found at Kurnool guest house.

According to sources Kurnool district officials traced Reddy and took him to the guesthouse. However, the Chief Minister’s Office has not confirmed Reddy being found.

Earlier, the Chief Minister was supposed to land at Chittoor at 10.45 am but the helicopter made forced emergency landing near Kurnool due to bad weather."


Andhra Chief Minister goes missing, found at Kurnool - Yahoo! India News