Air Chartered Services Pvt Pilatus PC-12 45 accident
Pilatus PC-12 45 · Accident
From Patna to Indira Gandhi International Airport, Palam, New Delhi
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN11RA687
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · Committee of Inquiry appointed under Rule 74… final report
- Event fatalities
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 3
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Pilatus PC-12 45
- Aircraft type
- Pilatus PC-12
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- VT-ACF
- Operator
- Air Chartered Services Pvt
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From PatnaTo Indira Gandhi International Airport, Palam, New Delhi
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On May 25, 2011, an Indian registered Pilatus PC-12/45 airplane, VT-ACF, operated by Air Chartered Services Pvt, as an emergency medical services (EMS) flight, sustained substantial damage when the airplane impacted terrain near Faridabad Parvatiya Colony, India. The two pilots, one patient, and four EMS crewmembers were fatally injured. Five people sustained fatal injuries on the ground. The EMS flight originated from Patna, India, and was destined for Delhi, India.
The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Government of India. This report is for information purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Government of India. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Deputy Director General Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) DGCA Complex Opposite Safdarjung Airport New Delhi - 110 003 India
Tel No.: +91-011-24620272, 73 Fax No.: +91-011-24616715
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN11RA687
- Event ID
- 20111020X72443
- Case number
- CEN11RA687
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 26bfd817846d5a0c78d4be9e3d708553d4e5b2eb4614bd87e98f85536f544007; retrieved 2026-09-13T17:57:42.808Z.
- Checked against the Committee of Inquiry appointed under Rule 74 of the Aircraft Rules 1937, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, registration and operator. Taken from the report: fatalities, ground fatalities, departure, destination and damage. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.