Previous incidents

May 04, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:33 am IST

APRIL 2004

Actor Soundarya and three others were killed when a private four-seat Cessna 180 crashed soon after taking off from the Jakkur airfield.

SEPTEMBER 2007

A six-seat private aircraft, belonging to Joy Alukkas Group, crashed into Gowdanapalya lake in Padmanabhanagar killing four commercial pilots.

FEBRUARY 2007

Co-pilot of an advanced light helicopter of the IAF was killed and the pilot injured after the chopper crashed at Yelahanka Air Field. Accident took place when four helicopters of IAF’s Sarang display team were practising for Aero show.

MARCH 2009

Three Indian Air Force officers died after a Saras Prototype II, an indigenously developed multi-role transport aircraft, which was on a test flight, crashed near Bidadi.

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