• Two Indian Air Force fighter jets collided in midair and crashed in central India.
• The incident resulted in the death of one of the pilots.
• Both aircraft had taken off from the Madhya Pradesh air base known as Gwailor.

Two Indian Air Force fighter jets collided in midair and crashed in central India, killing one of the pilots.

The incident occurred when the aircraft were on a routine “operational flying training mission,” according to a statement from the air force.

About 50 kilometers (30 meters) to the east of where they crashed, both aircraft had taken off from the Madhya Pradesh air base known as Gwailor.

To find out what caused the disaster, the air force has launched an investigation.

Two pilots were aboard a Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30 that crashed, and one pilot was operating a French-built Mirage 2000.

According to local media reports, wreckage was discovered in the neighboring states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan’s Bharatpur.

At one location where wreckage was located, police officer Dharmender Gaur informed the news agency that a pilot had been discovered alive and injured in the Padargarh jungles.

“We have located the wreckage of one of the planes,” the officer said. “The other plane has likely fallen further away from the site and we have sent teams to locate it.”

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, stated that local authorities have received instructions to support the rescue and relief activities of the air force.

The incident is the most recent in a string of aviation mishaps involving the military air force of India.

While the head of India’s armed forces, Gen. Bipin Rawat, was among more than a dozen killed in December 2021 when the helicopter they were travelling in hit a hillside and caught fire in Tamil Nadu state, five soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Arunachal Pradesh state, close to the border with China, in October of last year.

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