MUMBAI: Five people died after a King Air C90 charter aircraft crashed in Ghatkopar, the congested central suburbs of Mumbai, on Thursday afternoon.All occupants on board, which included two pilots -- Capt P S Rajput and Capt Maria -- and two aircraft maintenance engineers along with one person on ground are dead.The 12-seater aircraft (VT-UPZ), which took off from Juhu airport crashed in the compound wall of an under-construction building called Jagruti around 1.10 pm, said a source. Smoke from the wreckage would have led the air traffic control to move flights to the secondary runway.The Mumbai Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) team is at the spot for preliminary investigation. The plane crashed through the boundary wall of the under construction residential complex and burst into flames leaving a strong smell of aviation fuel all over the area.
A light aircraft crashes in the Ghatkopar district of Mumbai, India, killing all four occupants and one person on the ground.