Social media users are linking the crash, that killed General Bipin Rawat, to either an attack by insurgents, or internal sabotage, or even a communal attack.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA) and the India Military Academy (IMA), General Rawat was commissioned in the Indian Army in 1978, in the Fifth Battalion of 11 Gorkha Rifles.
The Indian private industry must step in to provide cutting-edge space technologies and products to boost operational capabilities of the Indian armed forces, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said.