The Ministry of Civil Aviation has ordered an inquiry into the Border Security Force (BSF) crash that occurred Monday morning near Dwarka in Delhi.
A small aircraft of the BSF crashed at Shahbad Muhammadpur village in Dwarka near the Delhi airport shortly after it took off. All ten personnel on board including three officials and seven technical staff members were killed in the accident.
“Authorities are in the process of setting up a Board of Inquiry,” said civil aviation secretary RN Choubey.
While BSF sources claimed that the condition of the 21-year-old aircraft Beech Super King Air B-200 was flight worthy, the aviation experts opined that there are several factors involved in the maintenance of an aircraft and the violation of any one of them could have led to the fatal accident.
Ironically, the doomed aircraft was flying technicians to get a chopper repaired in Ranchi.
Former Director General, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Kanu Gohain told Firstpost, “It’s too premature to draw any probable conclusion or the factor that might have led to the accident. But, there are a couple of important factors on which the investigators must look into.”
According to the sources, the accident occurred during reciprocal landing of the twin-engine Super King aircraft, when it hit a tree, then crashed with a boundary wall and landed in a sewage treatment plant near T3 Terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport.
22/12/15 Debobrat Ghose/F.India
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A small aircraft of the BSF crashed at Shahbad Muhammadpur village in Dwarka near the Delhi airport shortly after it took off. All ten personnel on board including three officials and seven technical staff members were killed in the accident.
“Authorities are in the process of setting up a Board of Inquiry,” said civil aviation secretary RN Choubey.
While BSF sources claimed that the condition of the 21-year-old aircraft Beech Super King Air B-200 was flight worthy, the aviation experts opined that there are several factors involved in the maintenance of an aircraft and the violation of any one of them could have led to the fatal accident.
Ironically, the doomed aircraft was flying technicians to get a chopper repaired in Ranchi.
Former Director General, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Kanu Gohain told Firstpost, “It’s too premature to draw any probable conclusion or the factor that might have led to the accident. But, there are a couple of important factors on which the investigators must look into.”
According to the sources, the accident occurred during reciprocal landing of the twin-engine Super King aircraft, when it hit a tree, then crashed with a boundary wall and landed in a sewage treatment plant near T3 Terminal of the Indira Gandhi International airport.
22/12/15 Debobrat Ghose/F.India
