NEW DELHI: A 37-year-old entrepreneur, Yogesh Garg, was killed after being hit by his own plane barely two hours after he completed his solo flight. "He wanted his friends to witness his feat. After he successfully flew the aircraft around 8am, his colleague Purvi boarded the X-Air trainer aircraft along with pilot Anil Gupta from the local Pankh Aviation. The plane was about to land after a sortie when Garg decided to click pictures of the landing. As he got riveted to the camera, Garg misjudged the distance between him and the plane. Gupta tried to gain height at the last moment to avoid collision but the wheels and bottom half of the plane hit him, killing him instantly," said Thapar.
The plane was damaged as it went off the runway and hit the ground. Both Gupta and Purvi escaped unhurt.
Meerut city SP Om Prakash, however, maintained that the rotor blades caught Garg as he got dangerously close to the runway when the plane landed. Police said investigation was on to ascertain if there was any lapse on the part of authorities by allowing Garg to walk on the runway when the aircraft was landing. Additional district magistrate Neeraj Shukla, who reached the spot soon after the accident, said a preliminary inquiry revealed that Pankh Aviation was not allowed to use the airstrip. The company, however, said they had the requisite papers and were training flyers for the past four months.
Official sources said the BR Ambedkar airstrip was not in commercial use, only occasionally used for joyrides by businessmen and real estate owners whose small planes are parked in the hangar.
Garg expected to undergo training for another two months before he could get a licence, police said, and had plans to make it big in the aviation sector through his aviation club. While shocked colleagues recalled him as a warm worker and senior, his family sought privacy.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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