It was April 17, 2004. Telugu famous person Soundarya had simply boarded a single-engine Cessna 180 from the Jakkur airstrip close to Bengaluru in Karnataka. Soundarya, the belle of Telugu cinema and a health care provider, had simply joined the BJP. She was on her approach to Karimnagar in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to marketing campaign for the BJP. It was 11 am.
5 minutes later, the Cessna burst right into a ball of flames and crashed. Soundarya, and her fellow passengers on that ill-fated flight, by no means made it out. They have been all charred to dying.
Sowmya Sathyanarayana, popularly often known as Soundarya, was solely 32 when she died. Soundarya primarily labored in Telugu movies aside from Kannada, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam cinema. She loved widespread fame and recognition after sharing display area with Amitabh Bachchan within the 1999 Hindi drama Sooryavansham.
On the time of her dying, Soundarya was pregnant. She was travelling to Karimnagar together with her brother Amarnath, BJP celebration employee Ramesh Kadam, and pilot Pleasure Philips, none of whom made it out alive. In reality, there was no identification of the our bodies potential since they have been all burnt past recognition.
Shortly after takeoff, the Cessna 180 plane crashed on the campus of the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra of the College of Agricultural Sciences, close to Bengaluru.
This is a lowdown on what occurred on April 17, 2004
- The plane, a Cessna 180, took off from the Jakkur airstrip at 11.05 am.
- Soundarya, pregnant at the moment, was travelling together with her brother, Amarnath, BJP celebration employee Ramesh Kadam, and pilot Pleasure Philips to Karimnagar, then Andhra Pradesh.
- She was on her approach to Andhra Pradesh to marketing campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) for the overall elections.
- The plane turned west earlier than crashing on the campus of the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra of the College of Agricultural Sciences.
- It had reached a peak of 150 toes (46 m), and, earlier than reaching the required price of climb pace, took a steep left flip, which led to a stall.
- It caught fireplace a couple of minutes into takeoff and crashed into the bottom nostril down.
- BN Ganapathi, one of many two individuals engaged on the experimental fields of the college, who rushed to the plane to save lots of the passengers, mentioned the airplane wobbled earlier than the crash.
- SM Krishna, the then Karnataka Chief Minister, and Arun Jaitley, the Union Commerce Minister after which BJP state-in-charge, rushed to Jakkur after the crash. The BJP metropolis unit additionally referred to as off all its public programmes for the day.
- The then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, additionally expressed his sorrow at Soundarya’s premature dying.
Soundarya, a serious Telugu famous person, was a crowdpuller for the BJP within the South. She had married a software program government Sridhar in 2003, months earlier than her dying.
Soundarya’s dying is in headlines now, after 20 years, as a police grievance has been filed in Andhra Pradesh’s Khammam district. The complainant Chittimallu has alleged that Soundarya’s dying was not unintentional, however a homicide linked to a property dispute with Telugu actor Mohan Babu.
