An air ambulance coming to Delhi from Patna with a heart patient and six other people on board crash landed in a field in Najafgarh area of Delhi on Tuesday afternoon.
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Alchemist Airlines Air Ambulance had taken off from Patna and was enroute to Delhi when it crashed at 2:45PM.
News18 reported that the plane was supposed to land at Indira Gandhi International Airport, six nautical miles from the crash site. The plane is operated by Alchemist Air.
The two injured have been taken to the Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital.
The aircraft landed in a field. The captain of the plane told the ATC that he will be trying emergency landing at the best possible place as both the engines have failed.
All the passengers were moved to a hospital. “We received an emergency call from the pilot”.
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All seven people on the single-engined aircraft, including a 20-year-old patient, two doctors, two attendants and two pilots on board the single-engined aircraft, died in the crash. They made the landing safe. The pilot reported engine failure just before landing. The air ambulance had seven members on the board.
