IAF Jaguar aircraft develops snag while landing, pilot safe

Defence sources told The Indian Express the accident took place after the fighter plane had touched down and was taxiing on the runway. “While the plane was taxiing on the runway, auto-ejection took place due to some technical snag. Therefore, there was some damage to the aircraft but it was not a crash-landing as such,” they said.

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“The accident took place while the plane was landing at Jamnagar air-base. The pilot ejected from the plane but has sustained minor injuries,” superintendent of police of Jamnagar, Pradish Shejul told The Indian Express.

This is a second accident involving Jaguar fighter jets from the Jamnagar air-base in three days. Air commodore Sanjai Chauhan’s aircraft had also taken off from Jamnagar air-base for a routine training mission. The IAF had ordered a court of inquiry in that incident too.

The crash in Kutch district had inured a cattle-herder on the ground and left 11 cows dead as they were hit by the falling debris of the fighter plane. However, there were no reports of injury to anybody on the ground in the incident at Jamnagar air-base on Friday.

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