New Delhi, Jan 28 (AFP\/APP): 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.<\/p>\n
“We have located the wreckage of one of the planes and found an injured pilot in the Parhadgarh forests,” officer Dharmender Gaur told AFP.<\/p>\n
“The other plane has likely fallen further away from the site and we have sent teams to locate it.”<\/p>\n
The crash is the latest in a string of aviation accidents involving India’s military air fleet.<\/p>\n
Five army soldiers were killed last October when their helicopter crashed in Arunachal Pradesh state, near the country’s militarised and disputed border with China.<\/p>\n
It was the second military chopper crash in the state that month, coming weeks after a Cheetah helicopter came down near the town of Tawang, killing its pilot.<\/p>\n
India’s defence chief, General Bipin Rawat, was among 13 people killed when his Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter crashed while transporting him to an air force base in December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, Jan 28 (AFP\/APP): 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. “We have located the wreckage of […]<\/p>\n
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