A Border Security Force (BSF) aircraft has crashed soon after taking off near the Delhi airport on Tuesday morning. Ten people including 2 pilots were killed in the incident.
According to initial reports, a technical snag was developed in the Superking aircraft soon after it took off from the runway 28 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 9.37 a.m.
The aircraft’s pilot asked for a priority landing to the Delhi air traffic control (ATC). Eventually, full emergency was announced and measures were taken. The ATC allowed the BSF aircraft priority landing and made arrangements for two other approaching aircrafts to be on the stand-by.
According to the IGI airport sources, the aircraft had overshot the runway when it was taking off to Ranchi. This could probably have damaged forcing plane to land back. Meanwhile, the reports are impending confirmation.
While the aircraft was on its way back, reaching the runway 10 of the airport from the Dwarka side, it lost radio contact all of a sudden with the ATC. At the outer periphery boundary wall of the airport, the plane crashed on the western side. It happened while it is descending towards the runway in the morning around 9.50am.
Yogesh, a local resident, said, “We saw the plane flying really low and could see fire coming out of it too. After the plane crashed, I saw two bodies with deep cuts on their neck and hands.”
Two laborers were also injured while working near the crash site, as the crashed aircraft’s smoldering parts fell on them, according to reports. Delhi Police personnel rushed them to a local hospital.
The flight that crashed was going to Ranchi with 10 BSF personnel on board. They include pilots BP Bhatt and Rajesh Shriram, Inspector RP Yadav and SN Sharma, Deputy Commandant D. Kumar, Assistant Sub Inspector DP Chouhan, Sub Inspector Ravindra Kumar, Sunder Singh and Chotte Lal, and Constable K Rawat.
-Sumana
