Delhi plane crash: Bodies of 10 BSF personnel sent for post-mortem

New Delhi: The bodies of all the ten paramilitary personnel who were killed in a plane crash in Delhi on Tuesday, have been sent for post-mortem at the Safdarjung Hospital, police officials at the crash site said. While three bodies were found just outside a water tank in a completely charred condition, the rest were pulled out of the water tank, they said. [caption id=“attachment_2555634” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  The wreckage at the crash site. PTI[/caption] All the 10 people on board a small Ranchi-bound BSF plane carrying technical personnel were killed when it crashed near Dwarka on Tuesday morning and burst into flames just outside the IGI airport in Delhi shortly after take-off. The ill-fated twin-engine Superking plane took a turn after taking off at around 9.37 am and hit a tree while apparently approaching to land following a possible technical problem, according to officials from the ATC and DGCA. “It then crash landed hitting the periphery of the airport, then dragged on smashing through a portion of the boundary wall,” they said. Small pieces of the wreckage of the fuselage are currently being salvaged by a team of police, disaster management and other officials, they said. Immediately after the crash took place, a large contingent from the police and personnel from civil defence was pressed into service. A team of CISF personnel and disaster management as well as officials from Air Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation also rushed to accident site, they said. PTI