The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an investigation into the Tuesday crash that led to the death of 19-year-old city-youngster Sohail Ansari.
Officials of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy (IGRUA) to which Sohail belonged however said that he was a trained and tested pilot with 90 hours of flying experience. This was also not the first time he was flying solo, said Air Commodore T K Chatterjee, Chief Flying Instructor, IGRUA.
Sohail was on a navigation sortie on Tuesday when he went missing and his body was traced by the police in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, on Wednesday. While the reason that led to mishap is being probed, a quick look at the data available with IGRUA and the DGCA shows that this is arguably the first IGRUA operated DA- 40 aircraft crash, ever since the academy received the aircraft in 2008. According to data available on the website of Diamond Aircraft, the manufacturer, IGRUA is reported to have ordered 14 such aircraft after April 2008.
27/12/13 Pranav Kulkarni/Indian Express
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Officials of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy (IGRUA) to which Sohail belonged however said that he was a trained and tested pilot with 90 hours of flying experience. This was also not the first time he was flying solo, said Air Commodore T K Chatterjee, Chief Flying Instructor, IGRUA.
Sohail was on a navigation sortie on Tuesday when he went missing and his body was traced by the police in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh, on Wednesday. While the reason that led to mishap is being probed, a quick look at the data available with IGRUA and the DGCA shows that this is arguably the first IGRUA operated DA- 40 aircraft crash, ever since the academy received the aircraft in 2008. According to data available on the website of Diamond Aircraft, the manufacturer, IGRUA is reported to have ordered 14 such aircraft after April 2008.
27/12/13 Pranav Kulkarni/Indian Express
