Aircraft crashes in Aligarh: 6 make miraculous escape

Aligarh, Aug 27(UNI) Six people, including two pilots of a chartered plane, had a miraculous escape when their aircraft crash landed  at Dhanipur air strip in the city on Tuesday morning. According to police sources here,  the aircraft VT-AVV  is reported to have hit an electric wire  while landing before  crashing on the airstrip.

The entire aircraft was burnt even as fire brigade tried to douse the flames. The incident occurred when the aircraft, coming from New Delhi, touched some wire  before landing on airstrip, confirmed city magistrate Vineet Kumar Singh. The two pilots– Kishore and Dipak– along with engineers Ramprakash Gupta, Prabhat Trivedi, Anand Kumar and Kartik suffered minor injuries.The aircraft was carrying engineers for repairing aircraft of aviation company.