Fadnavis Escaped Air Tragedy - List Of Politicians Who Didn't

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Then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was killed in a chopper crash on September 2, 2009. IMAGE: WIKIPEDIA.However, there have been others as lucky as Fadnavis and managed to survive aircraft tragedies in the past. They included former Prime Minister Morarji Desai, who escaped unhurt when his special aircraft crashed in Assam in November 1977. Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, and former union ministers Prithviraj Chavan and Kumari Selja escaped miraculously from a chopper crash in Gujarat in 2004. In 2007, then Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his cabinet colleague P.S. Bajwa survived after their chopper got entangled in overhead electrical cables in Gurdaspur.