Identity of all 10 plane crash victims medically established

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Dec 22 2015 | 9:07 PM IST
Identity of all ten victims of a BSF plane crash here has been "medically established" and doctors have surgically reconstructed facial and bodily disfigurement suffered by them.
The bodies of the paramilitary personnel were sent to AIIMS after they were pulled out of the accident site at Shahabad Mohanmadpur village in Dwarka area, with some of them in partially burnt condition.
"Two bodies - of the pilot and the co-pilot - were partially burnt while other eight bodies showed only injuries but no burning. Identity of all the victims has been medically established with the help of finger printing," Sudhir Gupta, head of the AIIMS' Forensic Department, said.
"The cause of death as per the postmortem report is fall and blunt impact inside the aircraft," he said.
The victims after the incident were identified as chief pilot and Deputy Commandant Bhagwati Prasad Bhatt of BSF, Rajesh Shivrain, co-pilot and second-in-command of paramilitary SSB, Deputy Commandant D Kumar, Inspectors Raghvendra Kumar Yadav and S N Sharma, Sub-Inspectors Ravindra Kumar, Surendra Singh, C L Sharma, ASI D P Chauhan and Constable K R Rawat.
Also, each of them had their identity cards in their jacket pockets, which helped in forensic investigation, Gupta said.
A ten-seater Ranchi-bound twin-engine Super King B-200 carrying BSF personnel and technicians crashed between 9:40-9:45 AM killing all ten men on board.
"The plane flew over the railway line and crashed onto the boundary of a sewage treatment plant on the periphery of the airport premises after hitting a tree close by," a top official of the Delhi Fire Service said.
The aircraft was blown to smithereens by the impact of the crash and there was hardly any wreckage left to salvage from.
While few bodies were found just outside the plant's tank in burnt condition, the rest were pulled out of the tank, which didn't show any burning, the official said.
Doctors at AIIMS also tried to lend dignity in death to the victims by surgically reconstructing some of the features.
"We surgically reconstructed the skull, facial structures and body parts in honour of those men," Gupta added.
The ill-fated 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," the official said.
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Raghvendra Kumar Yadav, one of the victims in today's plane crash, belonged to Kanpur but was living with his wife and two children in Ghaziabad.
The BSF inspector belonged to Adarshnagar in Chakeri area of the city, where his 82-year-old mother and brother Ramakant along with other family members live.
Another victim of the tragic accident, Rajesh Shivrain, belonged to Jind district in Haryana.
The co-piot of the ill-fated aircraft had spent his early days in Mumbai and later at his ancestral village in Hisar district of Haryana.
Shivrain's father was an officer in the Indian Navy.
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First Published: Dec 22 2015 | 9:07 PM IST

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