Indian Air Ambulance Plane Crashes Near Bangkok, Pilot Dies

Undated photo of a YoungOne Pilatus PC-12 in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Faisal Akram / Wikimedia Commons
Undated photo of a YoungOne Pilatus PC-12 in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Faisal Akram / Wikimedia Commons

NEW DELHI — India’s external affairs minister says an Indian hospital air ambulance plane with five people on board caught fire and crash landed near Bangkok. The pilot was killed.

Minister Sushma Swaraj in a series of tweets says that two doctors in the plane were seriously injured in the accident and taken to a hospital in the capital.

She says the other two people on board suffered minor injuries.

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The cause of the Monday’s accident and other details were not immediately known.

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The air ambulance plane belongs to the Medanta company.

It is a multi-specialty medical institute in Gurgaon, a city on the outskirts of the Indian capital.