Both aircraft had taken off in the morning from the Gwailor air base, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of where they came down. theSun theSundaily aircraft crash military India
: Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises around 300 kilometres south of the capital New Delhi, police at the crash site told AFP.
“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 air force was investigating whether the planes had collided in mid-air, local broadsheet the Hindustan Times reported.“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.
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. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is grappling with the urgent task of overhauling India's outdated armed forces.
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