2015 Indian Border Security Force King Air crash

2015 Indian Border Security Force King Air crash
Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, Private JP7130611.jpg
A Beechcraft Super King Air similar to the crashed aircraft
Accident
Date22 December 2015 (2015-12-22)
SummaryCrashed while attempting an emergency landing
SiteIndira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, India
Total fatalities10
Total injuries1
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBeechcraft Super King Air 200
OperatorBorder Security Force
RegistrationVT-BSA
Flight originIndira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, India
DestinationRanchi Airport , Ranchi, India
Occupants10
Passengers8
Crew2
Fatalities10
Survivors0
Ground casualties
Ground injuries1

On 22 December 2015, a light aircraft of the Indian Border Security Force crashed within the grounds of Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India. Ten personnel of the Border Security Force, three officers and seven senior technicians, were killed. The 22-year-old Beechcraft B200 King Air took off for Ranchi just before 9.30am, before crashing shortly afterwards.

Accident

After the King Air's engines were started the crew reported that there was a problem (the nature of which has not been reported), but continued with the flight after advice from ground staff. The aircraft took off at 9:27am local time, with an expected arrival time at Ranchi of 12:00pm.

Soon after taking off, the crew informed air traffic control that something was wrong and that they would return the aircraft to Delhi. The crew were then cleared to make an emergency landing on Delhi's Runway 28. At 9:40am contact was lost with the aircraft. The King Air veered to the left, narrowly missing a village. It brushed a tree before hitting the perimeter wall of the airport, it then crashed into a sewage treatment plant within the airport complex. The aircraft then caught fire and was almost completely destroyed. All ten occupants were killed; one person on the ground was injured.


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