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التاريخ: السبت 16-02-2008 الموافق 9 صفر 1429هـ
Feb 16, 2008
نوع الطائرة: طائرة خفيفة (محركين)
مكان الحادث: ولاية كنساس، أمريكا
Kansas, USA
تابعة: خاصة
عدد الضحايا: 2 رجل وأمرأة

تحطمت يوم السبت طائرة خفيفة ذات محركين في ولاية كنساس الامريكية، وقد وقعت الطائرة مباشرة بعد إقلاعها من المدرج في أحد المطارات غربي المدينة، وقد أدى الحادث إلى مقتل كل من أشوك باجاج وزوجته تريش باجاج.
ود رجح السيد جينيفر كاسير من هيئة سلامة النقل الجوي الامريكية أن يكون عامل سوء الأحوال الجوية السبب في وقوع الحادث، حيث أن الروؤية كانت منخفضة وكان هناك سحب منخفضة وأمطار فوق المنطقة.
وقد ذركر والد الطيار بأن أبنه كان ينوي التوقف في مطار قريب ليأخذ أحد أصدقائة ومن ثم يغادر إلى مدينة أستن في ولاية تكساس للمشاركة في مارثون.

WICHITA | A Wichita cardiologist and his wife were killed over the weekend when the twin-engine plane he was flying crashed shortly after taking off from an airport just east of town.
Family members identified the victims as Ashok Bajaj, 49, and his wife, Trish, 50. They were killed Saturday evening when their plane crashed and burned a mile from Benton Airpark in a muddy field, strewing debris for a half-mile.
Jennifer Kaiser of the National Transportation Safety Board said visibility and clouds were low at the time of the crash. Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said it also was raining.
“It was not good, I can tell you that,” Murphy said.
Prem Bajaj, the pilot’s father, said his son had planned to land at a nearby airport to pick up a friend, then fly to Austin, Texas, to participate in a marathon.
Authorities are still trying to determine what caused the crash.
Prem Bajaj described his son as confident, decisive and a good communicator who decided to be a doctor soon after graduating from high school.
“In fact, I learned a lot from him,” Prem Bajaj, a former professor of math and statistics at Wichita State University, told The Wichita Eagle.
In 1991, The Eagle reported that Bajaj was the first physician in Kansas to perform a radio frequency ablation, which is a procedure used on patients with abnormally fast heartbeats.
“Once in a while, we used to talk when he was in medical school,” Prem Bajaj said. “He found patients waiting for such a long time, and he said, ‘When I become a doctor, I’m not going to make them wait.’ As his practice grew, he wasn’t always able to do that, but he said, ‘I still do my best.’”
Bajaj had been flying for about three years.
Trish Bajaj was active in Wichita service groups and taught English as a Second Language courses at a local church, Prem Bajaj said. She recently had taken flying lessons, he said.
The couple are survived by two sons, Brian, 22, who recently graduated form Kansas State University, and Kevin, 19, a freshman at the University of Kansas.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/494633.html