A providential escape

A LARGE part of the city could have turned into an inferno had the aircraft crash-landed at a kerosene depot located barely 100 yards from the accident site. kerosene depot. A major loss of human life was also averted as the plane crash-landed near a place inhabited by 5 lakh people.

A LARGE part of the city could have turned into an inferno had the aircraft crash-landed at a kerosene depot located barely 100 yards from the accident site.

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It was by sheer luck that the aircraft Cessna-152 did no crash-land on the kerosene depot. A major loss of human life was also averted as the plane crash-landed near a place inhabited by 5 lakh people.

The aircraft first collided with the house of Sanjay Pal who said, “After colliding with the roof of my house luckily the aircraft got entangled with a tree and fell under it.” Reacting to the accident, another eyewitness Ram Sewak said, “The aircraft crash-landed with a big bang creating panic in the area.”