Ranchi, February 24 – A day after an air ambulance crashed in Jharkhand's Chatra district, killing all seven people on board, two teams from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) arrived in the state on Tuesday and began investigating the accident, an official said.
After post-mortem examination at Sadar Hospital in Chatra, the bodies of the victims were handed over to their families, except for one from Amritsar.
The Beechcraft C90 air ambulance, operated by Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd, was en route from Ranchi to Delhi when it crashed on Monday evening in the Bariatu Panchayat area of Simaria, located deep inside a forest, and resulted in the death of all seven people.
The deceased were Captain Vivek Vikas Bhagat and Captain Savrajdeep Singh, patient Sanjay Kumar, his sister Archana Devi, Dr Vikas Kumar Gupta, and paramedic staff Sachin Kumar Mishra and attendant Dhruv Kumar.
While the body of Dr Gupta, the accompanying doctor, is being taken to his home in Bihar, the families of Captain Singh are on their way to Chatra from Chandigarh, officials said.
"Two teams from the DGCA have arrived here, and they have begun the investigation. It will take another two days for them to reach a conclusion. A five-member team from Kolkata and a two-member team from Delhi will conduct the investigation," Chatra Deputy Commissioner Keerthishree G told
