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The incident happened at around 8.30 pm, SP Gwalior said A Madhya Pradesh government aircraft, carrying 71 boxes of remdesivir from Ahmedabad, crash-landed on the runway at the Gwalior airport Thursday evening. Three people, including pilot Majid Akhtar and co-pilot Shiv Jaiswal, escaped with minor injuries.
The incident took place around 8.30 pm on Thursday when the Beechcraft King Air B-250 GT hit the arrestor barrier at the end of the runway while landing.
The aircraft was to drop a part of the remdesivir consignment in Gwalior before taking the to Jabalpur.
Gwalior SP Amit Sanghi told The Indian Express, “The pilot was unaware of the arrestor barrier and collided with it before crash-landing.”
While a DGCA inquiry will establish the reasons of the crash, prima facia it appeared that the ATC did not inform the pilot about the arrestor barrier.
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