{"id":299739,"date":"2018-06-28T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=299739"},"modified":"2018-06-28T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:53:42","slug":"charter-plane-crashes-in-mumbai-5-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/charter-plane-crashes-in-mumbai-5-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter Plane Crashes In Mumbai, 5 Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_299741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299741\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299741\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/charter-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/charter-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/charter-312x420.jpg 312w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/charter.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit : Social Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Five people were killed and two others got injured when a charter plane King Air C90 crashed into an open construction site in a densely populated Ghatkopar, suburb of Mumbai on June 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUY Aviation Pvt Ltd King Air C-90 aircraft VT-UPZ has met with an accident at Mumbai. Operator bought this aircraft from the Uttar Pradesh government. The aircraft took off from Juhu airport for a test flight,&#8221; said Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the people inside the plane, including two pilots (Capt P S Rajput and Capt Maria) and two maintenance engineers (Surbhi and Manish Pandey) along with one person on the ground are dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The plane crashed when it was less than three kilometers away from Mumbai airport main runway 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Corpses recovered from the accident site were taken to Rajawadi Hospital. However, officials said that &#8220;the bodies were charred and beyond recognition.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;A DGCA team is on its way for a preliminary investigation. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau will do a detailed investigation,\u201d DGCA confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Praful Patel, former civil aviation minister, tweeted &#8220;That the pilot saved many lives at the cost of her own, by swerving to avoid crashing in a busy area.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were killed and two others got injured when a charter plane King Air C90 crashed into an open construction site in a densely populated Ghatkopar, suburb of Mumbai on June 28. \u201cUY Aviation Pvt Ltd King Air C-90 aircraft VT-UPZ has met with an accident at Mumbai. Operator bought this aircraft from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":299741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[2948,2894,2951,2950,2949,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299742,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299739\/revisions\/299742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}