All the 10 people on board a small Ranchi-bound BSF plane carrying technical personnel were killed when it crashed near Dwarka on Tuesday and burst into flames just outside the IGI airport in Delhi shortly after take-off.
Along with the pilot of the plane Captain Bhagwati Prasad, the ones who lost their lives in the crash are Deputy Commandants D Kumar and Rajdesh Shibrain. The BSF technicians who died in the crash are Raghvendra Kumar, CL Sharma, SN Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Surrender Singh, DP Chauhan, KR Rawat.
The tragedy took place within minutes of the plane taking off from the Indira Gandhi International Airport for Jharkhand's capital at 9:37 AM from runway 28. As soon as the twin-engine plane was airborne, it developed a technical snag.
One of its engine malfunctioned and the plane was assigned runway 10 for landing. Just before the approach of the runway, the plane hit some trees and then a boundary wall near a sewage treatment plant.
The plane, manufactured in 1994 and registered in BSF's name in 1995, crashed into the sewage treatment plant at around 9:47 AM and burst into flames. While those on board the plane were killed, some labourers on the ground were also injured.
The incident took place near a railway track in the Shahbad Mohammadpur village of Sector 8 Dwarka in Delhi. The plane was carrying a group of technicians who were going to Ranchi to repair a helicopter.
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