Bhubaneswar, Feb. 24 -- All seven persons on board an air ambulance were killed after the aircraft crashed near Simaria in Jharkhand's Chatra district on Monday evening, officials said.

The Beechcraft C90 aircraft, operated by Redbird Airways Pvt Ltd, was en route to Delhi from Ranchi when it went down shortly after takeoff. According to the Deputy Commissioner of Chatra, Keerthishree G, the aircraft took off from Ranchi at 7.11 pm and went missing around 7.30 pm before crashing in the Bariatu Panchayat area of Simaria, deep inside a forest.

SDPO Shubham Khandelwal said the bodies of all seven persons on board have been retrieved. The deceased were identified as Captain Vivek Vikas Bhagat, Captain Savrajdeep Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Dr Vika...