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Chartered plane crashes in Mumbai, kills five

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Five people were killed in a small airplane crashed in a suburb of India’s financial capital Mumbai on Thursday, police and aviation officials said.

The King Air C-90 aircraft was on a test flight with two pilots and two engineers on board, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.

The plane crashed, with four people on board, as it was landing and burst into flames. A pedestrian on the ground was killed, police said.

Authorities said the accident was under investigation and the cause was not immediately known, reports Reuters.

The plane was owned by UY Aviation Pvt. Ltd.

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