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The air ambulance, of Medanta which was flying from Delhi to Bangkok to bring a critically-ill patient to Gurgaon’s Medanta Medicity, crashed in Thailand.
The pilot of ambulance died after the plane crash-landed in Thailand on Sunday en route its destination and two doctors injured in the same. The plane was carrying five people and it caught fire before crash-landing near Bangkok, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Monday.
The Royal Thai Air Force airfield at Nakhon Pathom was the closest when the problem occurred. “The pilots may have tried to land there but the initial reports suggest that they could not do so and the plane landed in a field outside the boundary wall of this airport. And then caught fire,” said a source.
The aircraft, Pilatus PC 12 (VT-AVG), belonged to Delhi-based charter company, Air Charter Services.
Despite repeated attempts Air Charter Services, the Delhi-based charter company whose plane had crash-landed, did not comment on this accident. Director general of civil aviation B S Bhullar could not be contacted as well. Medanta sources said the hospital team of doctors from Medanta left for Thailand later on Sunday to ensure proper treatment for the injured people.
Inputs:Agencies
