New Delhi: A probe into last year's crash of an air ambulance in Faridabad has found that strong gust of wind and very rough weather had caused the accident that claimed 10 lives, including that of a patient it was carrying to Delhi from Patna. The small Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, which was converted into an air ambulance, had crashed into two houses in the Parvatia colony of Faridabad at 10:43...
07:58 PM, May 01, 2012
Kolkata: A seven-month-old baby died in Kolkata on Wednesday after an ambulance driver allegedly took out her oxygen mask. Neha Mallik from Howrah, who was suffering from pneumonia, was first taken to a Howrah hospital where the doctors referred her to Kolkata. While travelling to the Calcutta Medical College the ambulance driver of Tara Ma Ambulance service allegedly took off the oxygen mask. The family members protested as the baby...
07:01 PM, Jan 18, 2012
London: A couple in Britain called for emergency medical help to save their "five-year-old" and did not reveal to paramedics that it was actually a cat, a media report said. Fearing the worst, the paramedics rushed to the house where a five-year-old had gone into cardiac arrest, until they discovered the youngster was actually a cat, Daily Mail reported Friday. A fast-response car and an ambulance were scrambled at 6.45...
06:54 PM, Aug 19, 2011
A day after the fatal air crash reported, fear still lingers on in the tiny bylanes of Faridabad. ...
08:57 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: The preliminary report on the plane crash in Faridabad in which 10 people - seven on board the ill-fated aircraft and three on ground - were killed says that the engine of the P-12 turboprop aircraft was fine and it was the turbulent weather that led to the tragedy. The investigation into the crash is being carried out independently and not by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...
05:54 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: When 20-year-old Rahul Raj was airlifted from Patna his family thought they could save his life. But ironically that was not to be. Rahul Raj had gone into coma after suffering from jaundice. On Wednesday, his doctors advised his family to get him airlifted to the Apollo hospital in Delhi. He was accompanied by his cousin Ratnesh. Rahul's uncle said, "Rahul's father and I boarded the evening flight to ...
04:22 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: When 20-year-old Rahul Raj was airlifted from Patna his family thought they could save his life. But ironically that was not to be. Rahul Raj had gone into coma after suffering from jaundice. On Wednesday, his doctors advised his family to get him airlifted to the Apollo hospital in Delhi. He was accompanied by his cousin Ratnesh. Rahul's uncle said, "Rahul's father and I boarded the evening flight to...
04:22 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: EMSOS Medical Private Limited Director Dr Navneet Singh said that the plane is considered to be a very useful and safe aircraft. "It is a very safe aircraft, very useful for emergency services. We have been in worse weather so it's hard to tell what happened. This aircraft has been used to travel to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, all over India," Singh said. "Even though it is a single ...
03:25 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: EMSOS Medical Private Limited Director Dr Navneet Singh said that the plane is considered to be a very useful and safe aircraft. "It is a very safe aircraft, very useful for emergency services. We have been in worse weather so it's hard to tell what happened. This aircraft has been used to travel to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, all over India," Singh said. "Even though it is a single...
03:25 PM, May 26, 2011
Srinagar: A 27-year-old Kashmiri doctor specialising in emergency medicine was among the 10 people killed when an air ambulance crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Faridabad. Syed Arshad Abbas was working as an emergency medical officer with the hospital, the sources told IANS. He was on board the air ambulance when it crashed Faridabad Wednesday night, a senior doctor told IANS on phone. Abbas belonged to Nowlari village near Pattan ...
02:21 PM, May 26, 2011
Srinagar: A 27-year-old Kashmiri doctor specialising in emergency medicine was among the 10 people killed when an air ambulance crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Faridabad. Syed Arshad Abbas was working as an emergency medical officer with the hospital, the sources told IANS. He was on board the air ambulance when it crashed Faridabad Wednesday night, a senior doctor told IANS on phone. Abbas belonged to Nowlari village near Pattan...
02:21 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: It was a beautiful windy Wednesday night with residents of Parvatiya colony in Faridabad getting ready to go to bed when a bright light and an unusual sound from the sky jolted them out of their slumber. The light and the sound came from an air ambulance crashing into the residential colony resulting in 10 people being killed. The air ambulance was carrying Rahul Raj, a critical patient suffering...
01:28 PM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: Other than gusts of wind and a power cut, it was a normal evening for the Sehrawats in Parvatiya Colony here when tragedy struck from the sky in the form of a crashing plane, wiping away all the womenfolk of the family. Fifty five-year-old Vedvati, her daughter Sarita (19) and daughter-in-law Rani (20) were killed when a chartered plane carrying a critically ill patient from Patna nosedived into their...
11:38 AM, May 26, 2011
Faridabad: Civil Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi has said that investigation into the aircraft crash in Faridabad will be carried out independently and not by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Zaidi said that the commander of the ill-fated plane had reported about bad weather before the crash. "The investigation will be done independently. The investigation will not be carried out by the DGCA. The Government will appoint a committee...
11:36 AM, May 26, 2011
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