Transcript · Hindi → English
Plane Crash Incident in Bathinda Village
We are here in Akaliyan Khurd village in Bathinda, where the
crash has taken place, and I am now joined by some of the
villagers
who live on these farms where the crash has
happened.
What's your name, and how did the crash happen? Did you see it? What time was it?
Yes, my name is Sukhraj Singh. It was around 1:30 p.m.
When the plane was coming this way, it was red, and it was on fire.
Did you see it?
Did you see it?
Yes, I saw it. Yes.
You were watching it while it was up there.
Yes, we were watching it. We all saw it. It circled over the village.
It was red and on fire.
How long was it up there, circling?
It had only been over us for a short time. It could only keep going for half a minute.
There was a very loud explosion. It made a huge bang.
You're saying it was already on fire while it was in the air.
Yes, it was on fire.
And then it fell after leaving here.
Yes, when it fell, it caught a massive fire. There was a very loud bang.
Did it collide with another plane too?
No, it didn't collide with anything here. It fell straight down.
It fell straight down.
Yes.
It caught fire from above.
Yes, it caught fire.
Which village is this? This divides two separate villages.
This is Akaliya Kalan. It fell on this land between Akaliya Khurd.
And what happened after that? Then there was an explosion, how did that happen?
Yes, there was a very big explosion. In the middle, there was a very loud bang.
It sounded like firecrackers going off.
So did the villagers go near it because some laborers were injured?
No, they came 15 to 20 minutes later.
Okay.
Firecracker-like sounds kept going off. Word had spread among the general public that we should
see what it was. We stood at a distance. Some people went close to it.
Then there was an explosion. They too...
Were injured.
Yes, they were. Shrapnel hit them. Some people say it exploded...
They went. They say there have been deaths too.
One person has died.
Yes.
He was from Charkhi Dadri, Haryana.
Yes.
How many?
Nine people were injured, all of them were laborers who had gone nearby to see, or villagers.
Locals.
There were laborers too, and people who had gone to see. There were village people in between too.
Was anyone there for the rescue?
Yes, that is the thing. The fire was put out. The fire was very intense.
So why are people not being allowed to go there now?
They are stopping people from going nearby.
No, not yet. It was much bigger at night. Now again—
The army is handling it, right?
They are carrying out their operation. They are not letting anyone go nearby yet.
So, as this clash is going on between Pakistan and India right now—
there have been air strikes too. Tensions have risen, so you are living in a village.
Now this accident happened, this crash happened, so is there any tension
or anything? Or how is it?
There was tension already. There was this thing. Somewhere here, a house...
It could have fallen in some village. What a huge loss that would have been. It was nature's
mercy that saved it.
The border is very nearby.
Yes, there is no sign of the pilot. Who knows?
It has not been determined whether it is Indian or Pakistani.
There is no information about it. There was a lot of fire in it at night. The fire
brigade came and put out the fire with their vehicles.
Was there a pilot when you or the villagers went near?
No, there was nothing. There was only fire. The fire was very
intense.
How was the rescue done then? Did they pull anyone out? Did anyone survive?
No, they were just putting out the fire. After that, the police came
when
the police inspected everything up close. The military came. They just
handled it that night.
There was no trace of the pilot.
There is no information about him.
You were saying so too. Are you from this village as well?
Yes.
Which village are you from?
Akaliya Kalan.
Akliya Kalan. What all happened at night?
At night, yes, around 1:15 a.m., we were outside.
And the old woman said lightning was striking. I said, “Not clouds, not clouds. Where would lightning
strike from?”
There was a sound.
There was a loud sound, as if there was a fire behind us. We…
It did not seem like ordinary lightning. That is what it felt like.
Then after that.
Then, after 15 to 20 minutes, it fell here. We…
Our house is also out in the fields. We were standing on the roof.
There would be a line of motorcycles here. Everyone came to see it here at night.
को।
So it was like this.
There was retaliatory action from both sides. It happened from this side.
After the Pahalgam attack, there is tension in the village about whether there will be an attack or
how to save themselves.
There is definitely tension. How far is Ferozepur from the border?
Yes.
We are very near the border. That is why we are worried.
Was anyone from the village injured, or were only the laborers injured?
No, they were ordinary people.
No, I mean the laborers were outsiders.
One was from outside. No, one worked at Bhaiya Mandi.
He was at Dana Mandi.
Someone from the village was injured too.
One was from the village, sir. And three people from the village were injured.
He is in the hospital.
His home is here.
In the fields on our side.
They have been seriously injured.
We were watching at night. They say we did not come at night.
What is your name?
Iqbal Singh.
Yours? Sukhraj. So these are villagers from this particular
village, Sukhraj Singh and Iqbal Singh, who are telling that the
incident took place in the wee hours
near around 1:30 a.m., when they were
seeing the craft in the air and after which it crashed here in
the fields of this village in the Bathinda area, where the
Camera person Aman Gupta, Aman Bhardwaj from Akaliyan Khurd,
Bathinda, India Today.
End of transcript · 1,067 words · machine translated
Original transcript (Hindi)
We are here at Akaliyan Khurd village of Bathinda where the crash has taken place and right now I am joined by some of the villagers who live native to this farms where the crash has happened.
क्या नाम है आपका और यह कैसे crash हुआ? आपने देखा कितने बजे की बात है? हां जी मेरा नाम सुखराज सिंह है। यह डेढ़ एक बजे का time था। यह जब जहाज यहां से चल रहा था। यह लाल, इसे आग लगी हुई थी। ਤੁਸੀਂ, ਤੁਸੀਂ आप देखे?
हां इसने देखा मैं। हां जी। आप देख रहे थे जब ये ऊपर। हां देख रहे थे। हां देख रहे थे सारे। village से इसने चक्कर लगाया था। यह लाल था आग लगी हुई थी। कितनी देर रहा ऊपर ये जब चक्कर ले रहा।
जब यह थोड़ी time भी हमारे ऊपर से गया जब। बस एक आधा minute ही यह जा पाया था। बहुत ही बड़ा धमाका हुआ था। खड़का किया इसने। आप कह रहे हो जब ऊपर था तभी आग लगी हुई थी। हां आग लगी हुई थी। और यहां से फिर उसके बाद गिर गया।
हां जब तो गिर गया इसे फिर बहुत भारी आग लगी। बहुत भारी खड़का किया। किसी और plane के साथ भी टकराया है? नहीं, यहां से कोई नहीं टकराया। सीधा ही ड़िगा है। सीधा ड़िगा है। हां।
ऊपर से आग लगी। हां आग लगी। गांव कौन सा है? ये divide करता है। दो गांव है अलग अलग। ये अकलीया कलां है। ये अकलीया खुर्द के बीच यह जमीन में ड़िगा पड़ा है। और उसके बाद क्या हुआ? फिर धमाका हुआ और कैसे?
हां बहुत बड़ा धमाका हुआ इसके बीच जो कोई मतलब की खड़का हुआ, पटाखों की आवाज तरह सी वो आई थी। तो गांव वाले गए पास क्योंकि कुछ labors injured हुए। नहीं 15-20 मिनट बाद आए थे। अच्छा।
उसके बीच पटाखे चलते ही जा रहे थे। आम नगर आ गया था कि हम इसे देखें कि क्या चीज है। दूर खड़े थे। कुछ लोग इसके पास हो गए थे। उसके बीच धमाका हुआ। उन्हें मतलब कि भी। Injured हो गए। हां हो गए। उन्हें सटफेट बजी है। कुछ बंदे कहते हैं फटे हो
गए। Death भी हुई है कहते हैं। एक की death हुई है। हां। चरखी दादरी का था हरियाणा का। हां।
यह कितने नौ जन injured हुए जो वह सभी मतलब labourer थे जो पास देखने गए थे या गांव वाले। Labour भी थे, देखने भी गए। village के लोग भी थे बीच में। Rescue के लिए कौन कोई।
हां की चीज है। इसे आग बुझा दी गई। आग बहुत ज्यादा थी। तो अभी फिर जाने क्यों नहीं दिया जा रहा है? पास मना कर रहे हैं जाने से। नहीं, अभी तो नहीं। रात तो जा बड़े थी। अभी तो फिर इसे पकड़ रहा है ना फौज।
अपनी कार्रवाई कर रही है। अभी नहीं जाने दे रहे हैं nearby से। तो यह जैसे पाकिस्तान और भारत के बीच यह चल रहा है clash। अब air strike भी की। अब tension बढ़ गई है तो आप जैसे गांव में रह रहे हैं। अब यह हादसा हो गया, crash crash हो गया तो कुछ tension वगैरह है या कैसे?
Tension तो थी ही। थी ही यह चीज। यहां कहीं घर में ड़िग पड़ता या किसी village में ड़िग पड़ता। कितना बड़ा नुकसान होना था। यह तो उस कुदरत की मेहर है जिसने इसे बचा लिया। border तो कितनी nearby है। हां pilot का कोई पता नहीं। क्या पता जी।
अजी यह नहीं पता लगा कि यह भारत का है या पाकिस्तान का है। कोई पता नहीं है इसका। इसका रात को तो बहुत ज्यादा आग थी। इसमें fire brigade आकर गाड़ियों ने आग को बुझाया। Pilot था जब आप गए पास या गांव वाले। नहीं, कुछ नहीं थी। अकेली आग थी एक। आग बहुत
ज्यादा थी। rescue कैसे हुआ फिर वो किसी को निकाला। कोई बचा इसमें से। नहीं जी, वो तो आग बुझाती थी। उसके बाद police आ गई थी। जब police ने उसके बाद सारे को पास से करता था। military आ गई थी। उन्होंने बस
इसे रात को संभाल लिया। जो pilot था उसका पता नहीं लगा। उसका कोई पता नहीं है। आप आप भी बोल रहे थे। क्या आप इसी गांव के हैं? हां जी।
कौन से गांव के? अकलीया कलां जी। अकलीया कलां। क्या क्या हुआ क्या रात को जब। रात को जी सवा एक बजे हमें हम बाहर पड़े थे। और बुढ़िया कहती है बिजली ड़िगती है। मैंने कहा बादल नहीं बादल नहीं बिजली कहां
से ड़िगती है। आवाज आ रही थी। आवाज आ रही थी पूरा। जैसे पीछे आग लगी है। अभी हमें आम सामान की बिजली नहीं ड़िगती। उससे लगता था। फिर उसके बाद।
उसके बाद जी 15-20 मिनट बाद यहां गिर गया जी। हम तो हमारा भी मकान बाहर बाहर खेतों में जी। अभी तो कोठे पर ही खड़े थे। यहां motorcycle की line लगी होती। सारे देख के गए लोग यहां रात को। तो यह जैसे
दोनों तरफ से जवाबी कार्रवाई हो रही है। इधर से हुई है। पहलगाम attack हुआ था उसके बाद यह tension है गांव में कि attack होगा या कैसे खुद को बचाना है। Tension तो है ही। यहां से फिरोजपुर तो कितनी की दूर है जी border से। हां
border के तो nearby ही हम। हमें यही tension होगी। गांव वाला भी कोई injured हुआ है इसमें या labour ही injured हुई है। नहीं आम बंदे थे। नहीं मतलब labour वाले बाहर। एक तो बाहर से था। नहीं एक तो वह भैया मंडी में काम करता
था। वह दाना मंडी में। पिन वाला भी injured। एक pin वाला जी। और तीन जख्मी हुए जो pin वाले। वह hospital में है। यहां घर है।
हमारे उधर खेतों में। ज्यादा सट्टा लगी है। हम तो रात को देख रहे हैं। ऐसे कहते कि हम रात को तो आए नहीं। क्या नाम है आपका? इक्बाल सिंह जी।
आपका? सुखराज। So these are villagers from this particular village सुखराज सिंह and इकबाल सिंह who are telling that the incident has taken place in the wee hours near around 1:30 AM where they were seeing the craft in the air and after which it got crashed here in
the fields of this village of Bathinda area where the camera person Aman Gupta, Aman Bhardwaj from Akaliyan Khurd, Bathinda, India Today.
