The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday started an inquiry into the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft in a residential area here that left 10 persons including seven on board dead.

Ten persons including all seven onboard a small medical ambulance aircraft were killed when the flight to Delhi from Patna crashed into roof of two houses in bad weather and caught fire in a residential area in Faridabad's Sector 22.

Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday began an inquiry into the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft in a residential area here that left 10 persons dead, including seven on board, by inspecting the site of the mishap.

As aviation regulator DGCA began probing the Faridabad air crash that claimed ten lives, the preliminary probe pointed towards technical malfunction and high velocity winds as the major reasons for the accident.