Helicopter crashes while en route to pick up Shiv Sena leader in Maharashtra.

A live video recording shared by Andhare shows a chopper making a landing attempt at an unidentified location. Suddenly, the chopper appears to swerve, wobble, lose balance, and then crash with a loud sound in a cloud of dust on an open ground.

The pilot managed to jump off the chopper and survive, but the white-and-blue hired rotary-winger was badly damaged in the crash. The incident occurred at Mahad town in Raigad.

Immediately after the crash, police and rescue teams rushed to the spot to investigate. Andhare, who was scheduled to fly by the same chopper, was understandably shaken by the experience.

However, she proceeded in a car for her scheduled election meetings in different parts of the district. It should be noted that aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.