NEW DELHI: Delhi-based boy, Bhavye Suneja, was the captain on the ill-fated Indonesian carrier Lion Air’s Boeing 737 Max that crashed today.
The Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board crashed into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after takeoff from the capital on its way to the country’s tin-mining hub, officials said.
A resident of Mayur Vihar, Suneja studied at the Ahlcon Public School in the locality. He joined the Lion Air in March 2011, report said.
“We spoke this July. He is a very sweet sounding person. Being an experienced pilot of the B737 with an incident, accident-free record, we are keen to have him with us because of his good credentials. His only request was that he wanted a Delhi posting as he is from the city,” said the senior official.
“It has been confirmed that it has crashed,” the spokesman, Yusuf Latif, said by text message when asked about the fate of the Lion Air plane, which air tracking service Flightradar 24 identified as a Boeing 737 MAX 8. (AGENCIES)
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