YSR Chopper crash -- Probe points to pilot error

The report which has been long awaited is finally out. The CBI took over the
investigation of YSR chopper crash. The late chief minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Rajashekhara Reddy was killed when the helicopter he was flying in crashed as the pilots lost the control because they were engrossed for six vital minutes in locating a flight manual.

The four member inquiry commission investigating the cause of helicopter crash that killed YSR along with four other people says that bad weather and strong winds forced the pilots into a descent they could not manage.

"The probable cause of the accident is – accident occurred due to loss of control resulting in uncontrolled descent in the terrain at a very high rate of descent due to entry into severe down draught," the report said.

According to the report the pilots were using flying instruments but their flight plan was cleared for Visual Flight Rules (VFR).

It also claims that the pilots on noticing a snag were engrossed for vital six minutes with the flight manual and were therefore distracted from the poor weather conditions.

Data recording shows that there was a snag in the helicopter and the pilots were busy for six minutes trying to rectify it looking at manuals and only lost vital time but also the control of the helicopter.

But interestingly even though the report does talk about a snag but it does not specify the kind of snag.

he four-member Committee of Inquiry was set up by the government a day after the crash and on the day that YSR was found dead. The committee headed by Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited CMD RK Tyagi included senior aviation and air safety experts.

Rahman -- Once Again in the Oscars queue

Music Maestro, A .R. Rahman has been nominated for Oscar for "Na Na" song in the movie "Couples Retreat" under the original song category for 82nd Academy Awards. This song will be competing with 62 other songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures for nomination which will be announced on feb 2.

This comedy movie directed by Peter Billingsley revolves around four couples who take a vacation to tropical island resort.

Rahman is getting many offers from Hollywood. Inorder not to spend more time in foreign countries, he is rejecting.

Remix era continues

Nagarjuna's forthcoming movie Kedi has a remix song "Mu Mu Muddante Cheda" which was originally acted by his father , ANR in Andrustavantudu. Nagarjuna plays a role with negative shades opposite Mamtha Mohan Das.

Nag's favourite music director, Sandeep Chowtha rocks the audience with melody again. Hope this movie works out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soundarya Rajanikanth to marry Ashwin

Soundarya Rajanikanth, younger daughter of Tamil superstar Rajanikanth is getting married to Ashwin, son of Ramkumar, a businessman in chennai.

The engagement is likely to happen on Feb 14th and the marriage is yet to be decided on the suitable muhurtham.

Soundarya, chief of ocher productions is a graphic designer and is working on an animation movie "Sultan the Warrior" with Rajanikanth in the lead role .The film is expected to hit the sets worldwide in April ,2010 with 3500 prints in 18 different languages.

Adurs Adiripoyindhi

Inspite of the contravercies, Adurs turned to a blockbuster. People from all over the world are watching it. Brahmanandam endless comedy added to it. The vaishnava role of NTR broke the bellies with laughter. Not to degrade the vaishnava community, some changes were made to the "where is that song". The song looks still great with the replaced tag "pilaka juttu" with "Patha bike".

Glamorous heroine Nayanatara in "langa-ooni" became a heartthrobe for many youngmen.

IT raids in the houses of Surya, KS Ravikumar and Vadivelu

Popular Tamil hero Surya's houses at Tnagar and Adyar were raided by Income Tax Officials on 18th January, 2010 .The raids commenced simultaneously in all the three houses at 7 a.m. According to a report, no information was available on what the officials recovered from them.

Kollywood was stunned by these sudden raids by the IT officials on the film industry personalities.

SP Mulayam Accepts Amar's resignation

Things are getting more sour between SP Chief Mulayam and the SP's poster boy Amar Signh. In the on going spat between Ram Gopal and Amar Singh, Ram Gopal seems to have gained the upper hand. While Amar Singh remained adamant on his resignation, Ram Gopal said the former had lost his mental balance. The SP chief had maintained that he would convince Singh to take back his resignation, but failed to sway him.

Ram Gopal has held Singh responsible for SP's association with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, which, he felt led to the party's poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls and the Ferozabad by-election.

SP leaders including Jaya Prada, Jaya Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt had threatened to quit their party posts in the wake of Singh's resignation.