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Mumbai plane crash victims died of ‘shock, burns’; plane allegedly ‘sick’

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The post-mortem report of the people who lost their lives in the recent plane crash in Ghatkopar are in. The five victims died of ‘shock due to burn and poly-trauma’.

Five people were killed after a chartered plane crashed near an under-construction building in Ghatkopar two days back.

The plane was about to land at the airport when it crashed near Jagruti building, where construction work was underway.

Speaking to the media from their hometown in Sonepat, Haryana, the father of the maintenance engineer, Surabhi Gupta, who lost her life in the crash, has said his daughter had told him that she was going to fly a ‘sick aircraft’.

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Calling it a clear case of carelessness, he said that the incident could have been averted.

“A day before she boarded the aircraft she told me that she’s about to fly a sick aircraft. This is a clear case of carelessness. This incident could have been avoided,” he said.

Gupta was one of the two maintenance engineers on board in the UA Aviation Pvt Ltd aircraft.

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Indramer Aviation, the company that was undertaking maintenance of the ill-fated chartered plane had cleared it for the test flight after it passed all the ground tests.

Kanu Gohain, the Executive Director of Indamer Aviation informed the media that they had extensively repaired the plane and removed all faulty parts.

According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), two pilots, two aircraft maintenance engineers and one other person lost their lives in the crash.

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