Lieutenant C P Ramachandran - the second-last name from the first batch of personnel listed in the Summary of Events document - was killed in an air crash on 05 February 1958 at Sulur AFS, which is in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. He was flying in a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber of the Indian Air Force. You can read more about the crash details here. Lieutenant Ramachandran was commemorated, with his name listed at the Naval Aviation Museum Wall in Goa.
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