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Jamshedpur, April 27: A two-member Air Safety team from the director-general of civil aviation (DGCA) today inspected the Air King C-90 that suffered a heavy landing here at the Sonari airport last evening.
The aircraft, which was coming from Calcutta, skidded off the runway allegedly due to inclement weather.
According to sources, the team members inspected the six-seater aircraft and the probable reasons that could have resulted in its heavy landing, which left five of its occupants with minor injuries.
Vice-president (flat products) of Tata Steel, Anand Sen, and managing director of Tinplate Company of India Limited, B.L. Raina, were also in the aircraft.
Sources said security was beefed up at the airport but because of the debris on the runway, no flight could take off or land there today.
More teams from the DGCA are expected to arrive for further investigations. Even the register of the local meteorological office on the airport premises has been sealed till the investigations are over.
Tata Steel vice-president, Anand Sen, who had sustained minor spinal injury in the accident, has already been released from the hospital.
The hospital authorities told The Telegraph that three other persons ? Jimmy Gandevia, Capt P.P. Ray and A.K. Sinha ? who had also suffered spinal injuries in the accident, have been shifted to Jehangir Gandhi Memorial Hospital after they had an X-ray conducted on fractured parts of the body.
Tinplate managing director, on the other hand, had sustained a hairline fracture in the lower part of the body.
His son, Mohit, said Raina has been administered medicine for the injuries and has been advised to take complete rest.
?The doctors have advised him to take rest. It will take at least 15 to 20 days for the fracture to heal,? he added.
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