9-seater plane crashes in Faridabad residential colony; 7 on board

Agencies

New Delhi, 26 May 2011:  A nine-seater chartered aircraft with seven people on board has crashed onto two houses in Faridabad near New Delhi. The aircraft, flying from Delhi to Patna, was a chartered medical ambulance. 

The Sub Divisional Magistrate of Faridabad has told NDTV that 10 bodies have been recovered from the two-storeyed building into which the plane crashed. Ten people were said to be inside that building at the time of the crash.

The chartered plane was serving as a medical ambulance and carrying a patient, Rahul Raj, who was in critical condition. Apart from Rahul, there were two crew members, two doctors and two attendants on board.
 
Rahul Raj had suffered kidney failure and was being airlifted from a Patna hopsital, Jagdish Memorial, to Apollo Hospital in Delhi.

 

With six aircraft in queue, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) had asked the plane to stop descent at 11,000 feet. Reports suggest the plane was then caught into a pocket of wind which might have caused the crash.