{"id":42893,"date":"2026-02-24T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42893"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:53:56","slug":"all-7-on-board-air-ambulance-flying-to-delhi-die-in-crash-in-jharkhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/all-7-on-board-air-ambulance-flying-to-delhi-die-in-crash-in-jharkhand\/","title":{"rendered":"All 7 On Board Air Ambulance Flying To Delhi Die In Crash In Jharkhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Newdelhi:<\/strong> All seven people on board an air ambulance were killed when the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand&#8217;s Chatra district on Monday evening. The flight was en route from Ranchi to Delhi when the accident occurred, a top state government official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All seven on board the air ambulance were killed in the crash. The plane was on the way to Delhi from Ranchi,&#8221; Chatra Deputy Commissioner Keerthishree G told news agency PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, operated by Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd, took off from Ranchi airport at 7:11 pm. According to Chatra Deputy Commissioner Keerthishree G, the plane went missing around 7:30 pm and later crashed in the Bariatu Panchayat area of Simaria, a densely forested region.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anant Sinha, CEO of Devkamal Hospital in Ranchi, the air ambulance had been arranged for Sanjay Kumar (41), a resident of Latehar district. He had been admitted on February 16 with 65% burn injuries and was under treatment at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A family member of the patient said they had chosen an air ambulance because his condition was too serious for a road journey. Vijay Kumar, a relative, said that the doctor had warned them that the patient might not survive a trip by road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tried to take him (the patient) by road, but the doctor said we couldn&#8217;t. He told us the patient might collapse on the way,&#8221; Vijay Kumar told reporters. &#8220;The doctor said that if we could arrange an air ambulance, then we could take him. So we decided to take him by air ambulance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newdelhi: All seven people on board an air ambulance were killed when the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand&#8217;s Chatra district on Monday evening. The flight was en route from Ranchi to Delhi when the accident occurred, a top state government official said. &#8220;All seven on board the air ambulance were killed in the crash. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42896,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42893\/revisions\/42896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}