Training plane crashes in Amreli, pilot killed

A well-trained pilot was killed when a training plane belonging to a private aviation academy crashed and caught fire in a residential area in the Amreli district of Gujarat on Tuesday afternoon. The plane collapsed on a tree and then hit an open plot.
Amreli Police Department Sanjay Kharat said the plane crashed into a residential area in the Giriya Road area of ​​Amreli town around 12:30 p.m. for unknown reasons, killing pilots of trainees on the spot. The pilot is performing solo. He added that the plane had taken off from Amreli Airport.
Harat said the plane caught fire and engulfed the flames after the crash in the Shastri Nagar area. “A training aircraft from the airport operated Aviation Academy took off from the airport, the training aircraft from the airport operated by the airport crashed into a residential area. The trained pilot was killed in the crash, and the plane was fouled in the flames.
He said the Delhi-based Aviation Academy provides pilot training for Amreli Airport. Local police have begun the process to raise accidental deaths and investigation cases to find out the exact cause of the crash, SP said. Fire officer SC Gadhvi said teams of four local fire brigades arrived at Shastrinagar when they learned that the plane had crashed and caused a fire in the plane.
He said: “Even though the plane crashed into the residential area, no one else was injured because it first landed on the tree and then hit a clearing.