KIN ARRIVE IN CITY
Pilot Pradeep Rajput’s son and wife, who reside in Delhi, came to Mumbai on Thursday night.
While Delhi-based pilot Pradeep Rajput’s body was identified by the pendant of his chain and gold bangle, co-pilot Maria Kathuria’s sample will be given for DNA testing after her parents reach Mumbai.
30 WORKERS SAVED BY (LUNCH) BELL
Around 30 labourers who have been working on the under-construction building where the plane crashed were away on a lunch break and were therefore saved by the bell.
Lavkush Kumar, 21, and Naresh Nisad, 24, were the only ones working at the site when the plane crashed. They sustained minor injuries. A pedestrian was also injured.
Naresh, whose face got minor burns, said, ‘I saw the airplane coming my way. I jumped off the net I was standing on. I had a lucky escape. Because of the fire, my face got burned.’
PAST CRASHES IN AND AROUND THE CITY
August 11, 2003
Mesco-owned Russian MI 172 chopper chartered by the ONGC crashes into the Arabian Sea in the offshore Heera Panna Oilfield’s Neelam area, about 30 nautical miles west of Mumbai.Toll: 25
November 4, 2015
A 14-seater Dauphin aircraft crashes off the coast of MumbaiToll: 2
December 11, 2016
A helicopter crashes at Filter Pada area, Aarey Colony, in Goregaon, two injuredToll: 2
January 13, 2018
A Pawan Hans chopper, carrying five senior officials of the Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and two pilots, crashes into the Arabian Sea near DahanuToll: 4