Ten people were killed when a small plane crashed into a residential building on the outskirts of the Indian capital, police said Thursday. According to dpa, the nine-seater chartered aircraft carrying a critically ill patient from the eastern Indian state of Bihar to a hospital in New Delhi crashed into a densely populated suburb of Faridabad late Wednesday. All seven people on board - the patient, two family members, two doctors and the two pilots - were killed in the crash, NDTV news channel reported. Three women living in the three-storey house the aircraft crashed into were also killed. Four other residents were injured, police said. The plane crashed onto the roof, broke in two and caught fire, NDTV reported. The fuselage of the plane stayed on the roof, but the nose fell on to the street below. "All the bodies were badly burnt," the IANS news agency quoted a local police officer as saying. NDTV quoted air traffic control officials as saying that gusty winds could have caused the single-engine aircraft to crash as it went into landing mode. The civil aviation directorate has ordered an investigation.
