Housing societies of buildings in the vicinity have been asked to submit CCTV footage to the police
The site in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area where a small plane crashed into a construction site on June 28. (Photo: AFP)
A day after the Mumbai air crash in a residential area left five persons dead, accident emerged on Friday showing the intensity of the impact.
A private 12-seater aircraft crashed into an under-construction building in Ghatkopar on Thursday, 28 June, killing all four persons on board and one person on the ground.
A deafening sound can be heard as the footage from a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera shows the plane turn into a ball of fire. It is however not clear from the visuals if the aircraft burst into flames mid-air or blew up on touching ground.
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Police said the footage was from a CCTV camera installed in a building near the one into which the Beechcraft King Air C90 aircraft crashed.
The Mumbai Police said all stakeholders would be called in to share details as part of the probe.
“A case of accidental death has been registered and an inquiry has been initiated,” Akhilesh Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone VII, told PTI.
Another officer said residents of nearby buildings, who might have seen the accident unfolding, would be asked to offer inputs.
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Housing societies of buildings in the vicinity have been asked to submit CCTV footage to the police.
An officer said the CCTV footage that emerged on Friday was now part of the investigation being done by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.
BJP MP Kirit Somaiya said the aircraft seemed to have crashed in a “steep angle”.
“I interacted with the Bureau team at the crash site today and also spoke to half a dozen eye witnesses. It seems the aircraft came dangling almost vertically at an angle of 15-20 degrees,” he said.
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Five people, comprising four crew members and a worker at the construction site, died in the accident.
The aircraft, owned by Mumbai-based firm UY Aviation, crashed in Ghatkopar’s Jagruti Nagar locality around 1 pm after taking off from Juhu airstrip. It was on a test flight.
The five persons who died are pilots Maria Zuberi and Pradeep Rajput, engineer Surabhi Gupta, technician Manish Tejpal Pande and construction labourer Govind Pandit.
(With agency inputs)
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