Minister of State for Civil aviation, Mahesh Sharma, said, “It was a 10-seater plane, crashed during take-off”.
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The Aircraft caught fire after hitting a wall shortly after takeoff from the global airport in the Indian capital.
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“We saw a plane spiralling down which crashed near the wall where work was going on”. “There was a lot of fire all around that nothing else could be seen”.
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Initial reports suggests that the aircraft took off at 9.30 am from the IGI airport in Delhi and within minutes of being airborne, it developed technical snag. The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by Beechcraft.
The plane crashed into the boundary wall at the airport and landed in a small body of water, said A.K. Sharma, director of Delhi Fire Services.
“The plane flew over the railway line and crashed onto the boundary of a sewage treatment plant on the periphery of the airport premises after hitting a tree close by”.
He said the BSF has already credited Rs 10 lakh each in the account of the next of kin of personnel from the total Rs 28,78,000 ex-gratia meant for them. “All of them are reported to be dead”, the statement said. “We don’t know what went wrong with the aircraft (BSF Seaking B-200) yesterday but the investigation is taking place”, Rijiju said.
All flights have been suspended to and from Delhi Airport.
VN Parasar said, “The three senior officials identified are Captain Prashad, Captain Rajesh Jhivrin and Deputy Commandant Dilip Kumar”.
Sohan Lal, 70, who cycled his way to the site from Raj Nagar said, “These kind of incidents make you feel sad and realise how fragile our lives are. My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved households”.
“Sir, why does the soldier’s family have to cry every time?” said a young woman, who had to be held back as she aimed a stream of questions at the silent home minister. “My thoughts are with the families of the deceased”.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has reached the spot to take stock of the situation. Earlier, President Pranab Mukherjee, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi had also condoled the loss of lives.
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the disaster was “extremely unfortunate”. Find us on Facebook too!
