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Indian Navy’s MiG Crashes Into Sea; One Pilot Missing

New Delhi: The MiG-29K trainer aircraft belonging to the Indian Navy crashed into the sea on Thursday. One pilot is missing, while the other one has been rescued, media reports quoted officials as saying. The naval force on Friday confirmed that the accident occurred at 5 pm on Thursday.

“One pilot recovered and search by air and surface units in progress for the second pilot,” officials said.

An inquiry has been ordered to investigate the incident even as more details are awaited. The jet had taken off for a sortie from India’s only aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya. MiG-29K, the Russian-origin fighter planes operate from the deck of INS Vikramaditya, which had taken part in the recent Malabar naval drills involving the Quad navies of US, Australia, India and Japan in the northern Arabian sea, Hindustan Times (HT) reported.

OB Bureau

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