BSF plane crash: When victim’s daughter posed questions to Rajnath Singh

BSF Director General D.K. Pathak on Tuesday said: “An amount of Rs. 15 lakh will be given from the BSF internal fund in addition to Rs. 10 lakh, which is the ex-gratia from the government”. “Why only soldiers get killed in such accidents and it never happens to VIPs”, she asked as soon as Singh began meeting the families after paying tributes and placing floral wreaths on mortal remains of the victims.

The deceased included Deputy Commandant D Kumar, Inspectors SN Sharma, Ravindra Kumar Yadav, Sub-Inspectors Chotte Lal Sharma, Surender Singh, Rabinder Kumar, Assistant Sub-Inspector DP Chauhan and Constable RK Rawat.

A composed and moist-eyed Home Minister consoled the young woman and assured her that their grievances would be looked into as he said he would review each and every aspect that they had underlined.

“My son-in-law told me that the planes in the BSF air wing are getting old and new ones are expected in sometime”. In the aviation (domain) such a plane is not considered old as required parts are changed from time to time…like engines are overhauled.

Ten Border Security Force personnel on board a Ranchi-bound Beech Superking aircraft were killed when it crashed, minutes after take-off, near West Delhi’s Dwarka area this morning, .

“Any death of any family member of the BSF fraternity saddens us”.

The plane, he said, was carrying the stipulated load yesterday and refuted reports that the crash had something to do with excess weight as a few personnel were asked to board it at the last moment. I used to travel in it only.

Rijiju also said that it would not be correct to describe the ill-fated plane as “old”.

“There was no problem with the aircraft, it was completely air-worthy”.

Nine BSF and one Sashastra Seema Bal personnel were killed when the B 200 Super King crashed through the boundary wall of the Delhi airport.

“We saw a plane spiraling down which crashed into the wall where work was going on”.

BSF officials on Tuesday said that the plane crash has been the biggest of its kind and the army lost ten of its most experienced men in the army force. “All that is not known”, a civil aviation ministry source said. “We do not know the exact reason of the crash but what we know is that it took a virtual U-turn towards the Palam air base after taking off and on return hit a tree and then the sewage treatment plant tank”, Pathak said.

Deputy Director of AAIB R S Passi will be the chairman of the committee while Capt Anant Sethi, chief pilot of Madhya Pradesh government as its Operational Member, besides, two other members from the Bureau.