One initial has died after two Indian Air flow Force fighter aircraft crashed in a mid-air collision in central India.
The planes were on a routine “operational flying training mission” when the incident occurred, the air force mentioned in a statement.
Each aircraft had removed from the Gwailor air flow base in Madhya Pradesh, about 50km (30m) east of where they arrived down.
The air force has ordered an inquiry to look for the cause of the accident.
The crash included a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 carrying two pilots, and a French-build Mirage 2000, flown by one initial.
Local press reports said wreckage was found in Bharatpur in Rajasthan plus Morena in adjoining Madhya Pradesh.
Police officer Dharmender Gaur, from one scene exactly where wreckage was uncovered, told AFP news agency that a pilot had been found wounded but alive in the forests of Padargarh.
“We have got located the remains of one of the planes, ” the official said. “The various other plane has probably fallen further away from the site and we have got sent teams to find it. ”
Madhya Pradesh Chief Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Shivraj Singh Chouhan said local authorities have been instructed to assist with all the air force’s rescue and relief efforts.
The crash is the latest within a series of aviation incidents involving India’s army air force.
Within October last year five soldiers were murdered when their helicopter crashed in Arunachal Pradesh state, near the border with Tiongkok, while in December 2021 the head of India’s armed forces, Gen Bipin Rawat, was among greater than a dozen killed when the heli-copter they were travelling within hit a hillside and burst directly into flames in Tamil Nadu state.
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15 January 2022
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