Mumbai airport private jet accident: Co-pilot with spinal injury moved to another hospital for surgery
Sunil Kanjarbhat (46), the captain of the flight, sustained multiple abrasions with trauma to the chest wall and spine. Officials gather around a damaged aircraft after it veered off the runway with six passengers and two crew members on board at the Mumbai airport amid heavy rains. MUMBAI: Neil Diwan, the co-pilot of a private jet that skidded off the runway at Mumbai airport suffered a spinal injury and has been moved to another hospital for surgery, Dr Deepak Namjoshi, the director of Criticare Asia hospital said on Friday. He said seven others admitted to Criticare Asia’s Andheri East hospital are stable and being monitored. A private jet veered off the runway while landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday amid heavy rains and all the eight people onboard have been hospitalised with injuries. The Learjet 45 aircraft VT-DBL belonging to VSR Ventures, had flown from Visakhapatnam. “Neil Diwan (in his early twenties) has a spinal fracture and paraplegia (a condition where both the ...