Small Plane Crashes Into Mumbai Construction Site, 5 Dead
Small Plane Crashes Into Mumbai Construction Site, 5 Dead
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Mumbai plane crash: In images on Twitter, flames and thick, black smoke was seen rising from the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Mumbai's Ghatkopar
A Beechcraft King Air C90 turboprop plane has crashed in Mumbai's Ghatkopar
MUMBAI:
HIGHLIGHTS
- Plane was about to land at Mumbai airport when it crashed
- A man was also killed on the ground Ghatkopar
- The plane was sold by UP government to a Mumbai-based company
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Five people were killed after a small plane crashed into a construction site in a thickly populated suburb of Mumbai this afternoon. The plane was about to land at the Mumbai airport when it crashed some distance away in Ghatkopar, killing all four on board -- two pilots and two maintenance engineers.
A man was also killed on the ground. Two charred bodies have been pulled out by firemen.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA, the plane took off from the Juhu airport on a test flight.
In images posted on Twitter, flames and black smoke were seen rising from the wreckage. A large crowd gathered around the debris, many carrying umbrellas.
Firefighters at the site of the plane crash in Mumbai's Ghatkopar
It took over an hour to put out the fire.
The plane, a Beechcraft King Air C90 turboprop, was sold by the Uttar Pradesh government to a Mumbai-based company, UY Aviation, in 2014.
"The deal was done after the plane had met with an accident in Allahabad," UP official Avnish Awasthi was quoted as telling news agency ANI.
#Mumbai: A chartered plane has crashed near Jagruti building in Ghatkopar where construction work was going on. More details awaited
The 12-seater plane was reportedly delivered to the UP government in 1995.
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