"We are all set to start disbursing Rs 6,000 as gratuitous relief to each of the flood affected family. It suddenly lost height and grazed a neem tree before ploughing through a row of government residential houses and burst into flames.The pilot of the plane was in communication with the ATC for landing and had sought permission to take another round before heading to the runway.There were mutilated bodies, broken cabin baggage and pieces of the aircraft strewn all over the site of crash.
) A plane, Alliance Air Boeing-737, crashed minutes before it was to land at Patna airport, killing 55 persons onboard and five on the ground. That airport is very far from the city is a constant complaint of fliers until a mishap takes place due to multi-storey buildings in the vicinity of the runway. Four of them later died. The runway was just two km away. Before the commission of enquiry submitted its report, many people blamed the crash on aging airbus, which was 20-year-old.Copyright © 2020 Living Media India Limited. The list is ready and we will start disbursing the amount very soon," Disaster Management Departments Principal Secretary Pratyaya Amrit told PTI.As per Disaster Management Department's bulletin, a total of 10.61 lakh people have been affected by floods in 577 panchayats of 77 blocks in 10 districts.The death toll in the floods stood at 10 in Bihar with no fresh casualties reported on Saturday, the bulletin said.Thirteen teams of the NDRF and eight of the SDRF are involved in the rescue operations as part of which 95,859 people have been evacuated from the marooned areas so far, it said.A total of 15,956 people are staying in 28 relief camps while nearly 1.53 lakh people were fed at community kitchens, the number of which rose to 422 on Saturday from 271 the previous day, the bulletin added.The districts hit by floods are West Champaran, East Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Supaul, Kishanganj, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, and Khagaria.NDRF teams have so far evacuated around 4,000 people to safer places, NDRF 9th battalion Commandant Vijay Sinha said adding that NDRFs 13 teams have been deployed along with 102 rescue boats in 12 districts of the state, including the 10 flood affected ones.Sinha praised his team for carrying out rescue operations the previous night in Gopalganj district which witnessed breaches at two places in Saran embankment, thus affecting thousands of people of several villages.Several rivers such as Baghmati, Burhi Gandak, Kamlabalan, Lalbakeya, Adhwara, Khiroi, Mahananda and Ghaghra are flowing above the danger level.Ganga is flowing below the danger mark at all locations including two at Gandhi ghat and Digha ghat in Patna, Water Resources Departments bulletin said.Meanwhile, train services between Sugauli-Narkatiaganj have been suspended due to flood waters touching the girder bridge between Sugauli-Majhowalia section in East Champaran district, East Central Railway (ECR) Chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar said.Array
The army was called in for help.News reports had quoted some eyewitnesses saying that the plane nose-dived after catching fire. This is something very close to what had happened in Patna, Bihar some 20 years ago.A plane, Alliance Air Boeing-737, crashed minutes before it was to land at Patna airport, killing 55 persons onboard and five on the ground.Initially, seven passengers were reported injured and alive. A Time Warner Company. People saw smoke billowing out prior to the crash.In final investigation, the plane crash was found to have happened due to human error committed by the pilot. On one side of the airport is a botanical garden, which also functions as a zoo in Patna. For reprint rights: Visuals from the crash site in Karachi, Pakistan. What happened in Karachi with a Pakistani passenger airbus stamps this fact once again.The aircraft brushed through the only four-storey building near the airport, and went up in flames after the crash. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of NEWS18.com does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them. Relief packets were air dropped in the flood affected north Bihar districts where over a million people have been hit by the deluge, while flood-related deaths remained at 10 with no fresh casualties reported from anywhere in the state on Saturday.A total of 1,940 relief packets were dropped in the 10 north Bihar districts from an Indian Air Force helicopter that took off from the Patna airport, a Patna district administration release said.The relief packets containing two-and-a-half kg flattened rice, one kg gram, half kg jaggery, match box and a packet of candles were packed at Sri Krishna Memorial Hall here for distribution among the marooned population.Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi inspected the packaging of the relief items, it said.Besides, the state government too will soon start disbursing Rs 6,000 as gratuitous relief (GR) to every flood affected family after identifying them.The GR will be made available through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under Public Financial Management System (PFMS) in the state.
One of them received no injuries barring a few scratches in what remains one of the worst aviation disasters in India.The flight, CD-7412, was on its way from Kolkata to Delhi, and Patna was its first stopover.