Our Correspondent /
New Delhi: Ten members of para military force, BSF including three officers were reported to have been killed when a small Ranchi-bound BSF Superking aircraft crashed in Dwarka near airport here around 10 AM local time.
Aircraft with two pilots, technicians and officers on board crashed shortly after take-off.
Eyewitnesses said the plane hit a wall before bursting into flames and then crashed into a water body.
BSF and Aviation sources while saying that four people were killed said the likelihood of any survivors in the crash at Bagdola village near Dwarka were dim.
The Aviation sources said the accident happened at around 9.50 am when the plane crashed into the airport boundary wall and landed in a sewage treatment plant while returning back due to apparent technical problem five minutes after it took off for Ranchi.
The aircraft lost contact with the Air Traffic Control, at 9.50 am, they said.
BSF sources said the technicians were on the way to Ranchi to repair a helicopter.
“We saw a plane spiralling down which crashed near the wall where work was going on. I could sport one body. A labourer who was working was also injured,” an eye witness told TV channel.
An inquiry has been ordered by the Civil Aviation Ministry.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the crash and has rushed to the crash site..
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung visited the spot. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma has said that an investigation has been ordered. The plane that crashed had senior technicians who were flying to Ranchi to repair a helicopter.
Civil Aviation Minister Mahesh Sharma has said that all 10 onboard BSF plane that crashed in Dwarka are dead.
@narendramodi
Pained by the loss of lives in the BSF plane crash in Delhi. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased.
@CongressInNews
Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi has expressed deep shock and distress over the tragic BSF aircraft crash in Delhi today.