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Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing 5, was under repair
MUMBAI, India — A small plane that crashed into a construction site in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier crash, an aviation company official said Friday.
Anil Chauhan, a top official of UY Aviation, which owned the small King Air C90, said the plane was on a test flight when it crashed Thursday.
“Though we have ownership of the aircraft, it was under the care of Indamer company. The aircraft was not yet handed over to us, it did not have a certificate of airworthiness,” Chauhan said in an interview broadcast by the TimesNow news channel.
Indamer CEO Rajeev Gupta told reporters his company was repairing the plane and that heavy rains in Mumbai when the plane took off were not ideal conditions. He said test flights shouldn’t be carried out in poor weather.