"The investigation will be done independently. The investigation will not be carried out by the DGCA. The Government will appoint a committee of inquiry. A working group will be set up to review existing safety norms," Zaidi said.
The investigation into the tragedy will be the first independent inquiry by India into an air crash. The investigation will try and find out what went wrong with the P-12 turboprop aircraft belonging to Delhi-based Air Chartered Services India Pvt Limited.Sources say that the plane does not have a cockpit voice recorder or even the data recorder as it is a small aircraft. A cockpit voice recorder and data recorder are vital instruments that perhaps could have recorded what really went wrong and led to the tragedy.
Investigators will have to piece together information on what really happened inside the aircraft. The final conversation between the pilot and the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) will also be looked at. The debris, broken parts and the state of the propeller will give some clues to the investigator as to the state of the engine and whether the engine was running or not.
CNN-IBN spoke to some pilots who said that during the pre-monsoon time they dread the weather patterns. There was a very dark weather patch, which was very far when the plane took off from Patna but it quickly moved over Delhi and could be one of the likely causes for the crash.It is very likely that a high gust of wind could have caught the aircraft. The wind could have flipped the aircraft over. Even some eyewitnesses claim that the aircraft flipped over and went into a downward spiral, making it very difficult for the pilot to control.
However, some evidence may have already been lost as residents of the area were seen picking up pieces of the broken plane, including the propeller.Questions are also being raised as to why the turboprop aircraft was allowed to take off from Patna for Delhi even though there were reports of strong wind over the national capital.At the Patna airport a Delhi bound flight of Indian Airlines was stranded on tarmac for two hours due to strong winds. So if a Boeing aircraft could be stranded due to high winds why was a single engine aircraft allowed to fly over Faridabad despite such strong winds.
The air ambulance was hired by Delhi's Apollo Hospital to ferry a critically ill 20-year-old jaundice patient, Rahul Raj, from Patna. Rahul Raj's family is from Bettiah in north Bihar, where his father is a trader.
It's been a double blow for the family of Rahul Raj, who was suffering from jaundice and was being brought to Delhi for treatment. His cousin Ratnesh, too, lost his life in the mishap.At 10:45 pm on Wednesday night the nine-seater air ambulance crashed into a house in Sector 22, Faridabad, killing all seven on-board and three on the ground.
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