CDS General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika, and 11 Others dies in a tragic helicopter crash in the Coonoor forested area of Tamil Nadu. It’s a very monumental loss for the country that the Chief of Defence Staff has died in a tragic accident when he was going to deliver a lecture in Defence Services Staff College in Wellington in the area of Coonoor. His IAF chopper was suddenly crashed around 12:20 pm yesterday in the forested area of Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state.