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Plane that crashed in Mumbai, killing 5, was under repair

29 of June 2018

In this Thursday, June 28, 2018, file photo, an aircraft flies above as rescuers stand amid the wreckage of a private chartered plane that crashed in Ghatkopar area, Mumbai, India. The plane hit an open area at a construction site for a multistory building in a crowded area with many residential apartments. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File),In this Thursday, June 28, 2018, file photo, an aircraft flies above as rescuers stand amid the wreckage of a private chartered plane that crashed in Ghatkopar area, Mumbai, India. The plane hit an open area at a construction site for a multistory building in a crowded area with many residential apartments. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

MUMBAI, India (AP) — An aviation company official says the plane that crashed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier crash.

Anil Chauhan, a manager at UY Aviation, which owned the small King Air C90, said the plane was on a test flight when it crashed Thursday.

Chauhan told the TimesNow news channel Friday the aircraft had not yet been handed over to the company and did not have a certificate of airworthiness. The plane had been damaged in a crash six years ago while it was owned by a state government.

A civil aviation ministry team examined the crash site where two pilots, two flight technicians and one person at the construction site were killed.