Mumbai crash: Going to fly in a sick aircraft, victim had told her father
Chandigarh, June 30: Surabhi Gupta, one of the five killed in the Mumbai aircraft crash had told her father that she was going to fly in a sick aircraft.
Surabhi had spoken to her father over phone in the morning on Thursday and described the condition of the aircraft as bad.
"It was yesterday morning that we spoke over phone. We had a routine conversation before she told me that the aircraft she was going to fly in later in the day was sick. She said the aircraft was in a bad condition..," Surabhi's father S P Gupta told reporters at his residence in Sonepat on Friday.
The grieving father wondered who gave the permission to fly a "sick aircraft".
"How
was
permission
given
to
fly
a
sick
aircraft
and
who
gave
this
permission,"
he
asked.
At
the
same
time,
Gupta
said
that
he
was
confident
that
a
high-level
probe
would
be
conducted
by
authorities
concerned
into
the
incident
and
people
responsible
will
be
held
accountable.
He said Surabhi got married only last year and her husband too was a pilot.
He recalled that Surabhi was often referred to as astronaut Kalpana Chawla by local residents in their home town in Uttar Pradesh.
"Recently, she was honoured by the Maharashtra government. She was a brave young woman, who was fond of heights," he said.
The 12-seater aircraft crashed in Ghatkopar in Mumbai on Thursday, killing both pilots and two aircraft maintenance engineers on board, besides a pedestrian.
The aircraft had taken off from the Juhu airstrip on a test flight. It lost control when it was four nautical miles from Juhu.