{"id":167923,"date":"2018-06-28T11:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=167923"},"modified":"2018-06-28T11:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:37:52","slug":"chartered-plane-crashes-in-mumbais-ghatkopar-fire-engines-rushed-to-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chartered-plane-crashes-in-mumbais-ghatkopar-fire-engines-rushed-to-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Chartered plane crashes in Mumbai&#8217;s Ghatkopar, fire engines rushed to spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small chartered plane crashed in the thickly populated suburb of Ghatkopar in north-east Mumbai on Thursday, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the plane was seen hurtling down and crashed with a deafening roar before bursting into flames around 1.15 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of casualties as the crash &#8211; the cause of which is not known &#8211; occurred in the premises of a building under construction. <\/p>\n<p>Police, fire brigade and disaster management teams rushed to the spot, Akhilesh Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-7) told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>Four fire engines have reached the spot, a BMC official said. <\/p>\n<p>The chartered plane does not belong to the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government, as earlier speculated.  <\/p>\n<p>UP Principal Secretary of Information Avnish Awasthi told news agency ANI that the plane was sold to Mumbai&#8217;s UY Aviation after it met with an accident in Allahabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small chartered plane crashed in the thickly populated suburb of Ghatkopar in north-east Mumbai on Thursday, officials said. Eyewitnesses said the plane was seen hurtling down and crashed with a deafening roar before bursting into flames around 1.15 p.m. There were no reports of casualties as the crash &#8211; the cause of which is not known &#8211; occurred in the premises of a building under construction. Police, fire brigade and disaster management teams rushed to the spot, Akhilesh Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone-7) told PTI. Four fire engines have reached the spot, a BMC official said. The chartered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}