MUMBAI: Around noon Indian Navy helicopter was deployed to fly with ONGC technician to fix the gas leakage on an unmanned ONGC platform at Bombay High on Sunday. The operation lasted almost 4-5 hours and the leakage was fixed and averted a major disaster.

The Indian Navy received an alert from the ONGC about a gas leak was reported onboard the offshore ONGC platform S1-6. "Since the ONGC field helicopters could not undertake the mission due to adverse weather conditions they asked for assistance," said a spokesperson of the Indian Navy.

The Indian Navy launched a Seaking 42C helicopter to transfer the ONGC technical team to the platform on 22 so that repairs could be undertaken.

"The naval helicopter had to undertake this mission in challenging circumstances including strong and gusting winds of over 30 knots. Due to the small size of the helipad on the imperiled offshore platform, the repair team had to be winched down from the helicopter. The daring mission was carried out with skillful precision and helped to avert a potentially dangerous outcome," said the official.

