The head of a major Indian steel company was killed along with two others Thursday in a helicopter crash in a northern Indian village, a news report said. O.P. Jindal, 75, was the head of the US$2 billion (¤1.55 billion) Jindal Group _ one of the largest steel producers in India. He was also the power minister for India's northern state of Haryana. Jindal was traveling with 59-year-old Surender Singh, agriculture minister of Haryana, when the helicopter plunged to the ground on a farm near in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state, the Press Trust of India reported. Pilot T.S. Chauhan died on the way to a hospital. Two other passengers _ a relative of Jindal and a police officer _ were seriously injured. Senior Superintendent of Police S.A. Rizvi said the cause of the crash was not known, but it appeared to be engine failure. The single-engine Eurocopter EC130 was owned by the Jindal Group, according to the Web site of India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
