NEW DELHI:
Indian Air Force's Mirage 2000 has crashed at HAL airport, Bengaluru. Reports are coming in that two pilots have sustained fatal injuries.
The IAF statement states that the Mirage 2000 trainer aircraft was on an acceptance sortie after upgrade by HAL and an investigation into the cause of accident is being ordered.
The crash comes barely four days after an Indian Air Force's Jaguar fighter plane crashed in Kushinagar, UP, on January 28.
Slew of crashes
A MiG 27 crashed near Jodhpur's Banad area on September 4, 2018.
On June 5, 2018, Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan passed away after his Jaguar fighter plane went down in the Mundra taluk of the Kutch region in northwestern Gujarat. This was the second alarming incident in the month of June 2018 with an Indian Air Force Jaguar.
A Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter jet has crashed near Nashik in Maharashtra on June 27, 2018.
On June 8, 2018, Indian Air Force's 'Jaguar' developed a snag while landing and had a minor accident. The pilot was on a routine training mission from the Jamnagar Air Force base.
Before these two successive Jaguar crashes, an IAF Cheetah helicopter crash landed at Natha Top in Jammu and Kashmir on May 23. The helicopter, too, was on a routine sortie and a court of inquiry was ordered.
On March 20 this year, an Advanced Hawk Jet (AJT) trainer, crashed on the Subarnarekha River bed along Jharkhand and Odisha's border.