New Delhi :
The 26-year-old small plane that crashed near Mumbai, killing all four on board and a construction worker on the ground, 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 Indamer, an aviation repair and maintenance company, had been fixing it for months.
Sources say the weather conditions were not suitable for a test flight yesterday.
This was also indicated by the husband of Captain Maria Zuberi, one of the two pilots who died in the crash.
The plane took off for its 50-minute test flight a little after noon from the Juhu airstrip after a puja, with engineers cheering its take-off. At a height of around 700 feet, the plane was hit by a snag.
P Kuthariya said he had been told by his wife that the flight had been put off.
