A trainee pilot was injured in a crash landing of a training aircraft on a roadside in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
A Cessna 152 aircraft crash-landed in a field near an under construction roadway in Kasganj.
The plane clipped overhead wires before crash-landing along the road, local witnesses said.
There was only one person onboard the plane, the trainee pilot. She was reported safe and was sent to the district hospital. The plane was operated by Chetak Aviation Academy, Aligarh.
The DGCA stated in a statement that the trainee pilot was on a solo flying exercise when the Cessna crash landed. The aviation agency said it is looking into the event and that the pilot is confirmed to be safe.Chetak Aviation Cessna 152 aircraft VT-AFB, which was engaged in solo flying at Aligarh, has crash landed in a field in Kasganj. “The trainee pilot is said to be safe,” the statement read.
Cessna 152 is a two-seater, single engine aircraft used mostly for training operations
