Hello,
I knew the co-pilot personally. He was my neighbour when he was
undergoing training in Hyderabad. Could anybody help me know where
Manish's family is today?
Regards
Ajay
--- In airline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Vin Ahuja <ahuja@xxxx> wrote:
> An Indian Airlines Dornier aircraft crashed while it was taking off
at
> Kochi airport today morning, killing all six persons on board and
three
> others who were working inside a Naval workshop building onto which
it
> nosedived and burst into flames. The 18 seat aircraft, with a
complement of
> only three crew members and three passengers, was on its way to
> Thiruvananthapuram when it failed to gain height and crashed just
after 11
> am. It was operating in the Agatti-Kochi-Thiruvananthapuram sector,
and had
> arrived from Agatti.
>
> It crashed onto one of the buildings in the complex of the Naval Air
> Station, INS Garuda, adjacent to the runway and burst into flames,
killing
> two persons inside the building and injuring at least five others,
one of
> them seriously.
>
> It shattered the asbestos roof of the Naval Component Repair Shop,
catching
> unawares a number of Naval and civilians workers who were working
inside
> the workshop. Many of them had a fortuitous escape as the accident
had
> occurred around the time of
> the morning tea break, according to eye witnesses.
>
> Among three passengers who died was a woman, Mrs. Vijaya Kalyani
Kanaujia
> from Gurgaon in Haryana. The two other passengers on board were Mr.
Raju
> Samala and Mr. Sasi Kant Ramani, both from Bombay. The crew members
who
> died were the pilot, Captain S. R. Singh, the Co-pilot Captain
Manish
> Sharma and the flight purser.