KL Report
SRINAGAR
An IAF fighter aircraft which crashed down in south Kashmir around 11am had took off from technical airport, Srinagar.
Defense sources said that a fighter aircraft which was on its routine flight crashed down in open fields at Mirhama, near Bijbehara town and the lone pilot on board, squadron leader Raghuvanshi died in this mishap.
Air force officials have been deputed to the site of the incident to ascertain the cause of air crash.
A police team visited the site of wreckage and the entire area has been cordoned off after the news of air crash spread in the area.
This soviet era fighter air craft has been the backbone of Indian air defense since its induction but has notoriously crashed several times in past decades earning an infamous name as “widow-maker” and “flying coffins”.
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