Ranchi, Feb. 23 -- Jharkhand Minister Irfan Ansari, in the early hours of Tuesda,y directed officials to take immediate action and deploy resources for search and rescue operations after a Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd Beechcraft C90 aircraft VT-AJV, operating a medical evacuation flight from Ranchi to Delhi, crashed in Kasariya Panchayat, Simariya block in Jharkhand's Chatra district.

The District Administration and AAIB teams are at the location, and an investigation is underway. The plane, carrying seven people including two crew members, lost communication and radar contact with Kolkata at approximately 100 NM South-East of Varanasi at 19:34 IST.

In a post on X, Ansari said that the state government is closely monitoring the situation wit...