DGCA probe into Faridabad plane crash

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday began a probe into the Faridabad crash of a small aircraft killing ten people and injuring two others on Wednesday night.

The small nine-seater plane flying from Patna to New Delhi with a critical patient crashed over a residential house at Faridabad near here killing seven people on board and three others on the ground in the house it crashed.

A six member DGCA team went to the spot in Faridabad, a residential area, and began a probe into the crash of the medical ambulance aircraft.

Gusty wind and a technical malfunctioning led to the crash, initial probe suggested.
“We have sent for collection of details and there would be a Ministry of Civil Aviation ordered inquiry,” said a senior Civil Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi.

An inspector of inquiry has been appointed to probe the tragedy.

Ten bodies were recovered from the crash site at Faridabad’s Parvatia colony where the plane crashed around 1035 pm Wednesday night in a ball of fire.

There were seven people on board the aircraft, including the two crew members, which was a medical ambulance and all were killed.

Others killed were residents of the two-storeyed house which was demolished and fire was raging from there.

The ill-fated plane was a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop passenger aircraft.

The plane was about 16 nautical miles away from Delhi and had started its descent when the crash occurred after it was found missing from the radar.

The plane was flying at a lower altitude and had got caught in a gusty wind, reports said.

The plane crashed with a huge explosion in the residential area.

The patient on the plane was identified as 20-year-old Rahul Raj. He was in a state of coma after suffering from jaundice.

He was being taken to Apollo Hospital in New Delhi from Jagdish Memorial Hospital in Patna when the crash occurred snuffing out ten lives.