New Delhi: A Jaguar fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force has crashed near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.
Both the pilots managed to eject safely.
The plane which had taken off at 7:25 am from Allahabad was on a routine training sortie.
It crashed about 13 kilometres from Allahabad at 8:47 am. A court of inquiry has been ordered.
This is the second Jaguar aircraft of the Indian Air Force to have crashed this year. In March, a Jaguar fighter had crashed near Kurukshetra in Haryana after a technical snag; the pilot had ejected safely.
The Jaguar is a twin-engine, single seater deep penetration strike aircraft of Anglo-French origin which has a maximum speed of 1350 kilometres per hour (Mach 1.3). It has two 30 mm guns and can carry two R-350 Magic CCMs (overwing) along with 4750 kg of external stores (bombs/fuel), says the Indian Air Force's website.
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