Webhaber
Two Indian military jets crash, one injured pilot found

Two Indian military jets crash, one injured pilot found

NEW DELHI: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of the capital New Delhi, police at the crash site told AFP.Both aircraft had taken off in the morning from the Gwailor air base, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of where they came down.“We have located the wreckage of one of the planes and found an injured pilot in the Pahadgarh forests,“ officer Dharmender Gaur told AFP from the scene of the crash.“The other plane has likely fallen further away from the site and we have sent teams to locate it.”The air force was investigating whether the planes had collided in mid-air, local broadsheet the Hindustan Times reported.The Su-30 was carrying two pilots and the Mirage jet had one on takeoff, according to the report.“I have instructed the local administration to cooperate with the air force in quick rescue and relief work,“ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted.“

The U.S. Sun, Benzer haberler