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VT-UPN Premier 1A Government of Uttar Pradesah, India
delivered new N33805 Apr 2008 to Germany as D-IIBE to IBE Trade Company, based in Ukraine registration changed to UR-USA May 2010, aircraft sold May 2008 to N3186C RangeFlyers LLC
Exported to India June 4 2008
New
Delhi: SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav‘s brother and UP Minister Shivpal
Singh Yadav and five others had a close shave today when their plane
skidded off the runway on landing at the IGI airport here.
The
nosewheel of the state government-owned six-seater Beechcraft broke as
the plane skidded off Runway 27 in high speed after landing. The
nose-wheel got stuck in the mud, airport sources said.
Civil
aviation regulator DGCA ordered a probe into the accident in which
Yadav, PWD minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, SP general
secretary and spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary and four others, including
two pilots and a cabin crew, received minor injuries. The accident
occured around 11.30 hours.
A
medical emergency team rushed to the aircraft minutes after the
accident and took all of them to the airport medical facility where they
were administered first-aid for minor injuries and discharged later,
the sources said.
The Runway 27 was closed for several hours
after the accident, but air operations were not affected as the two
other runways were made operational.
The airport authorities issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) informing all incoming aircraft about the closure till 2000 hours.
“It
was an accident. We have ordered a probe and our people have reached
the site,” Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra said.
The
preliminary findings show that the pilots had not called for an
emergency landing as they experienced a problem with the nose-wheel only
while landing, the sources said.
“At around 11.30 AM, the
aircraft VT-UPN (Beechcraft Premier 1A) belonging to UP Government was
damaged upon landing on Runway 27 of IGI airport. Emergency services at
the airport swung into action and we can confirm that there was no fire
or casualties of any kind in the incident,” a DIAL spokesperson said.
He
said that there was no affect on the operations at the airport as there
are three runways but “DIAL’s emergency services are at work to ensure
return of services at the earliest.”
Yadav was on his way to Masuri in Ghaziabad, where six people had died in violence last week.
See full article: http://www.firstpost.com
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