Delhi Plane Crash

A plane that crashed in Afghanistan this morning is not an Indian aircraft, the government said today after Afghan local media reported the passenger plane was believed to be flying from Delhi to Moscow.

An Air India plane was damaged at the Delhi airport on Tuesday when a tow tractor malfunctioned and collided with the aircraft's nose while pushing it back for take-off, senior officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.

Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for offering prayers and sympathy over the passenger plane crash in China's Guangxi on Monday.

Air India Express employees in Delhi today paid tributes to co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar, who lost his life in the Kozhikode plane crash incident.

The Delhi High Court has directed a chartered aircraft firm and an insurance company to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the families of each of the two doctors and a nurse who were killed in a plane crash while on a medical emergency flight in 2011.

The death of Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of the Indonesian Lion Air Boeing plane that crashed on Monday killing 189 passengers on board, is hard to sink in for his family living in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar.

Bhavye Suneja's family was eagerly waiting for him to return home for Diwali, a feature at their Delhi residence that has continued for years. That wait tragically ended Monday for all times to come.

The pilot of an Indonesian plane that crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta was Indian. Bhavye Suneja from Delhi had joined Indonesian carrier Lion Air seven years ago.

Mumbai plane crash: The 26-year-old small plane that crashed near Mumbai, killing all four on board, was in repairs for months before its test flight yesterday. It was its first flight in around nine years, sources say. The Beechcraft King Air C90 model aircraft was transported from Delhi to Mumbai by a truck, sources have told NDTV. Engineers of I...

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and HAL to pay a total of Rs 55 lakh compensation to a serving IAF officer rendered unfit for flying after a MiG-21 crash in 2005.

"We were 40-60 kilometres short of Delhi when the left engine failed," said one of the two pilots flying a Beechcraft King Air C-90A that crash-landed in Delhis Najafgarh yesterday.

An air ambulance from Patna crash-landed near the airport in Delhi after losing both its engines. Seven people were on board; two have been injured.

Among the files on Subhas Chandra Bose, declassified by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi this afternoon, is a 21-year-old cabinet note that said the government had already accepted that Netaji had died in a plane crash in August 1945.

The ill-fated Super King B-200 BSF aircraft that crashed in Delhi yesterday had "lost contact" with the Air Traffic Control after attaining a height of 500 m following take-off from the Delhi airport, sources said on Wednesday.

The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated Border Security Force (BSF) plane has been retrieved from the crash site here and it has been sent for investigation, force Director General DK Pathak said today.

A plane that crashed in Afghanistan this morning is not an Indian aircraft, the government said today after Afghan local media reported the passenger plane was believed to be flying from Delhi to Moscow.

An Air India plane was damaged at the Delhi airport on Tuesday when a tow tractor malfunctioned and collided with the aircraft's nose while pushing it back for take-off, senior officials of aviation regulator DGCA said.

Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for offering prayers and sympathy over the passenger plane crash in China's Guangxi on Monday.

Air India Express employees in Delhi today paid tributes to co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar, who lost his life in the Kozhikode plane crash incident.

The Delhi High Court has directed a chartered aircraft firm and an insurance company to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the families of each of the two doctors and a nurse who were killed in a plane crash while on a medical emergency flight in 2011.

The death of Bhavye Suneja, the pilot of the Indonesian Lion Air Boeing plane that crashed on Monday killing 189 passengers on board, is hard to sink in for his family living in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar.

Bhavye Suneja's family was eagerly waiting for him to return home for Diwali, a feature at their Delhi residence that has continued for years. That wait tragically ended Monday for all times to come.

The pilot of an Indonesian plane that crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta was Indian. Bhavye Suneja from Delhi had joined Indonesian carrier Lion Air seven years ago.

Mumbai plane crash: The 26-year-old small plane that crashed near Mumbai, killing all four on board, was in repairs for months before its test flight yesterday. It was its first flight in around nine years, sources say. The Beechcraft King Air C90 model aircraft was transported from Delhi to Mumbai by a truck, sources have told NDTV. Engineers of I...

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre and HAL to pay a total of Rs 55 lakh compensation to a serving IAF officer rendered unfit for flying after a MiG-21 crash in 2005.

"We were 40-60 kilometres short of Delhi when the left engine failed," said one of the two pilots flying a Beechcraft King Air C-90A that crash-landed in Delhis Najafgarh yesterday.

An air ambulance from Patna crash-landed near the airport in Delhi after losing both its engines. Seven people were on board; two have been injured.

Among the files on Subhas Chandra Bose, declassified by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi this afternoon, is a 21-year-old cabinet note that said the government had already accepted that Netaji had died in a plane crash in August 1945.

The ill-fated Super King B-200 BSF aircraft that crashed in Delhi yesterday had "lost contact" with the Air Traffic Control after attaining a height of 500 m following take-off from the Delhi airport, sources said on Wednesday.

The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated Border Security Force (BSF) plane has been retrieved from the crash site here and it has been sent for investigation, force Director General DK Pathak said today.