Mallika Dureja
An official said on Sunday that the IAF Mirage 2000’s black box and a piece of the Sukhoi-30MKI’s flight data recorder were found in the plane’s wreckage. Both planes had crashed in the Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.
Teams from the Indian Air Force (IAF) looked at and studied the place in Pahargarh where the pieces of the two fighter jets crashed on Saturday.
During a training mission in Morena, two of the IAF’s best fighter planes crashed, killing a wing commander and sending two other pilots to safety.
“The Mirage plane’s black box was found in the area of Pahargarh, Morena, where the plane crashed. A piece of the Sukhoi plane’s black box has also been found, and it’s possible that the rest of the recorder fell in Bharatpur “Ashutosh Bagri, the police chief in Morena, told the Press Trust of India over the phone. “The IAF, the police, and other agencies are looking for the last piece of the Sukhoi plane’s recorder,” he said.
A “black box,” also called a “flight data recorder,” is an electronic device that is put in an aeroplane and helps figure out what happened in an accident.
Defense experts think that the Russian-made Sukhoi-30MKI jet and the French-made Mirage-2000 may have collided in the air, but the IAF hasn’t said anything about what caused the crash.
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Both of the jets left the Gwalior Air Force station. There are both Sukhoi-30MKI and Mirage 2000 jet squadrons at the base. The SU-30MKI is a two-seater fighter jet, while the single-seater Mirage 2000 is made by the French aerospace company Dassault Aviation.
Wg Cdr Hanumanth Rao Sarathi, the Mirage 2000 pilot killed in today’s tragic mid-air collision crash. A fine aviator, he leaves behind his wife & 2 children. Hailing from Belagavi, Karnataka, his father was in the Army, his brother is also in the IAF.
He was 34.
Prayers 💔🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/ctzxnkIw5i
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) January 28, 2023
Saturday, Morena Collector Ankit Asthana said that pieces of both planes fell in the Pahargarh area of the district and in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, which is next to Madhya Pradesh.
Officials said earlier that the accident will be looked into by people with a lot of power. The pilot of the Mirage plane, Wing Commander Hanumanth Rao Sarathi, died in the crash. The two pilots of the Sukhoi plane, on the other hand, were able to eject and land safely. They said that they were taken to a military hospital.
