A training aircraft crashed in Gujarat’s Amreli on Tuesday afternoon, killing the pilot on the spot. The police and fire brigade teams have reached the spot.
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A trainee pilot died after a training aircraft crashed in the Shashti Nagar area in Gujarat’s Amreli on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the plane, which belongs to a private aviation academy, fell into a tree before crashing into an open plot. The plane then caught fire and the pilot died.
Fire officer HC Gadhvi said that they received the information about the crash at 12:52 pm, and a team was rushed to the spot.
“We controlled the fire. The pilot of the plane was seen inside. The pilot was sent to the hospital. The pilot died in the accident,” Gadhvi added.
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Amreli Superintendent of Police, Sanjay Kharat, said that the aircraft crash-landed into a residential area in the Giriya Road area of Amreli town at around 12:30 pm due to unknown reasons. He said the trainee pilot died on the spot, reported PTI.
Kharat added that the pilot was flying solo and it had taken off from the Amreli airport. “After taking off from the Amreli airport with a male trainee pilot, the trainer aircraft of an aviation academy, which operates from the airport, crashed into a residential area. The trainee pilot, who was flying solo, died in the crash while the aircraft was gutted in flames. No one else was injured in the accident,” Kharat said.
The office added that the plane belonged to a Delhi-based aviation academy, which provides pilot training from the Amreli airport.
Local police have started the process to lodge a case of accidental death and investigation to find out the exact cause of the crash. Gadhvi said that four teams of a local fire brigade rushed to Shastrinagar after learning about the plane crash.