Mumbai: A small plane that crashed into a construction site in India's financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier crash, an aviation company official said Friday.
Anil Chauhan, a top official of the UY Aviation, which owned the small King Air C90, said the plane was on a test flight when it crashed Thursday.
"Though we have ownership of the aircraft, it was under the care of Indamer company. The aircraft was not yet handed over to us, it did not have a certificate of airworthiness," Chauhan said in an interview broadcast by the TimesNow news channel.
Two pilots, two flight technicians and one person at the construction site were killed when the plane crashed in the Ghatkopar district, a crowded area with many residential apartments. A civil aviation ministry team was examining the site Friday.
More than 50 workers at the construction site had a narrow escape as they left for lunch five minutes before the crash occurred.
29/06/18 Rajanish Kakade/AP/News Tribune
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Anil Chauhan, a top official of the UY Aviation, which owned the small King Air C90, said the plane was on a test flight when it crashed Thursday.
"Though we have ownership of the aircraft, it was under the care of Indamer company. The aircraft was not yet handed over to us, it did not have a certificate of airworthiness," Chauhan said in an interview broadcast by the TimesNow news channel.
Two pilots, two flight technicians and one person at the construction site were killed when the plane crashed in the Ghatkopar district, a crowded area with many residential apartments. A civil aviation ministry team was examining the site Friday.
More than 50 workers at the construction site had a narrow escape as they left for lunch five minutes before the crash occurred.
29/06/18 Rajanish Kakade/AP/News Tribune
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