Jammu, May 5 (PTI) Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, the Army's Northern Command chief, visited the command hospital in Udhampur on Friday and interacted with the two pilots injured in a helicopter crash a day earlier, officials said.

The Army helicopter crashed after a "hard landing" in a forested area in the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Thursday following a technical fault, killing a technician and injuring the two pilots on board.

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The Army commander interacted with the pilots at the command hospital at Udhampur, they said.

He commended them for their devotion to duty and wished them a speedy recovery.

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