Mumbai, Shawwal 14, 1439, Jun 28, 2018, SPA -- A small private plane crashed Thursday in a busy area of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, killing five people including one person on the ground, police said. A former aviation minister said the pilot avoided a much higher toll by hitting an open area at a construction site. The fatalities included the two pilots and two technicians on the aircraft, AP reported. Police officer Vishnu Kolekar said one person on the ground was killed and two others were injured. Police said the 12-seat Beechcraft King Air C90 crashed on a test flight after being repaired and had taken off from Mumbai's Juhu airstrip, which is used by small planes and is some distance from the city's main airport. They said it plowed into an open area at a construction site for a multistory building in the Ghatkopar district, a crowded area with many residential apartments. Workers at the construction site had left for lunch. --SPA 03:27 LOCAL TIME 00:27 GMT 0036 www.spa.gov.sa/w709743