Nagpur: Nineteen-year-old trainee pilot Sohail Ansari died after the single engine Diamond 40 aircraft he was flying crashed near Chhindwara. The aircraft owned by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Academy (IGRUA) was reported missing on Tuesday.
IGRUA, which is based in Fursatganj airfield, Uttar Pradesh, brings its students and aircraft to Gondia every winter due to unfavourable flying conditions in the northern part of the country during this time. Ansari was flying solo from Gondia to Pachmarhi when the accident happened.
The remains of Ansari's body were found in the buffer area of Satpuda Tiger Reserve. According to sources, Ansari, who had 140 hours of flying behind him, was on his first cross country solo flying on Tuesday afternoon when his plane crashed.
"The aircraft crashed on the Thakurdev hill which is a treacherous 2.5 km high hill covered with dense forests," said Chhindwara superintendent of police Purushottam Sharma. He also said that Ansari belonged to Pune.
Read news in full 26/12/13 Aparna Nair/Times of India
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