<p>“I need to see you boys smiling,” IAF chief Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne said to his men as he touched down at the airbase where the mood was sombre after the ill-fated Mi-17 V5 helicopter crashed killing 20 people on-board.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“Oh I just told them that I want to see them smiling. I told them they need to keep moving forward,” Browne told reporters on Wednesday morning after he met his pilots and men on the tarmac here.<br /><br />Donning his dark blue overall, Browne made it a point by flying in a Mi-17 chopper from Dehradun and that too in a relief sortie that brought food and other materials.<br /><br />He said the morale of his boys was sky high and they were flying their sorties with enthusiasm as there still was work to be done (rescuing people).</p>
<p>“I need to see you boys smiling,” IAF chief Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne said to his men as he touched down at the airbase where the mood was sombre after the ill-fated Mi-17 V5 helicopter crashed killing 20 people on-board.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“Oh I just told them that I want to see them smiling. I told them they need to keep moving forward,” Browne told reporters on Wednesday morning after he met his pilots and men on the tarmac here.<br /><br />Donning his dark blue overall, Browne made it a point by flying in a Mi-17 chopper from Dehradun and that too in a relief sortie that brought food and other materials.<br /><br />He said the morale of his boys was sky high and they were flying their sorties with enthusiasm as there still was work to be done (rescuing people).</p>