Madhya Pradesh / Eyewitnesses recount sukhoi mirage crash that killed 1 pilot in madhya pradesh

Zoom News : Jan 28, 2023, 10:37 PM
Madhya Pradesh : In a rare and tragic accident, two Indian Air Force fighter jets (one Sukhoi-30 MKI and one Mirage-2000) crashed during a routine training sortie in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district on Saturday, killing one pilot while Two other pilots were injured. After the accident, the people who reached the spot took out both the pilots from the bushes and made them lie on the ground. Eyewitnesses claimed that they tried to extinguish the fire in both the planes by throwing mud.

Pahargarh sarpanch Shailendra Shakya said at the accident site, “I was standing here with some people when we heard a powerful bomb blast from above. We saw balls of fire falling down, some of which fell here on the way to the forest and some in Bharatpur.

Shakya said, “We saw two parachutes coming down and waited for 15-20 minutes for both to land. However, he fell in the bushes and got injured. We took them out from the bushes and made them lie on the ground. While we were talking to the two pilots in uniform, an Indian Air Force helicopter came and took them to Gwalior."

fire coming out of the plane

Veeru, a resident of Pahargarh, told that “He was near the place where the accident took place around 10:30 in the morning. I saw a plane whose front part was on fire. I saw smoke coming out from a place about five kilometers away. We tried to douse the flames with mud as we did not have water at that time.”

He claimed that a decomposed body was found near the debris. Local and Air Force officials reached the spot and started a search operation.

Significantly, two fighter jets of the Indian Air Force (one Sukhoi MKI and one Mirage-2000) crashed in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district during a routine training sortie in the morning, in which one pilot was killed while two other pilots were injured. ....

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