New Delhi: The mortal remains of four Indian Air Force personnel and two Indian Army soldiers who died in the helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu earlier this week have been identified, the Army said Saturday.

The crash killed 13 of the 14 people on board the Mi-17V5 helicopter, including India's first Chief of Defence staff (CDS) and his wife Madhulika Rawat on December 8. Earlier, the bodies of General Rawat his wife and his defence assistant Brigadier LS Lidder, whose bodies were positively identified, were cremated with full military honours in the Brar Square crematorium in the national capital on Friday.

The said that the bodies of Lance Naik Vivek Kumar and Lance Naik B Sai Teja, who lost their lives in a military chopper crash on December 8, have been positively identified. The bodies were handed over to close family members on Saturday morning.

"Mortal remains will move by air for last rites with appropriate military honour. The wreath will be laid at Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment prior to the departure. The process for positive identification of remaining mortal remains is continuing," the Army said.

The remains of four IAF personnel who died in the crash have been identified as those of Junior Warrant Officers Arakkal Pradeep and Rana Pratap Das, Wing Commander PS Chauhan and Squadron Leader Kuldeep Singh.

The bodies of the victims were flown from Sulur near Coimbatore to the Palam airbase Thursday evening in caskets wrapped in the Tricolour.

Among others who died in the chopper crash were CDS Rawat's Staff Officer Lieutenant Colonel Harjinder Singh, Havildar Satpal Rai, Naik Gursewak Singh and Naik Jitendra Kumar.

Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor in the crash, has been shifted to Air Force Command hospital at Bengaluru for further treatment.

A tri-service Court of Inquiry is investigating the cause of the chopper crash.