MP Aircraft Crash: Black Box Of Mirage 2000, Part Of Flight Data Recorder Of Su-30 Found, Says Morena SP

MP Plane Crash: Morena SP said that the black box of the Mirage aircraft and a part of the Sukhoi aircraft's black box have been found from the wreckage.

Black box of one jet, a part of flight data recorder of other found: Official

Source : PTI

New Delhi: The black box of Mirage 2000 and a part of the flight data recorder of Sukhoi-30MKI jet, which crashed in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district on Saturday, have been found. 

News agency PTI reported citing Morena SP that the black box and a part of the flight data recorder have been found from the wreckage. 

"The black box of the Mirage aircraft has been found from the wreckage in the Pahargarh area of Morena. A part of the Sukhoi aircraft's black box has also been found and the remaining part of the recorder might have fallen in Bharatpur," Morena Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Bagri told PTI over the phone. 

"The IAF, police and other departments are searching for the remaining part of the Sukhoi aircraft recorder," he said. 

A black box, or the flight data recorder, is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft and is of vital importance in the investigation of flight accidents. 

The two combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed during a training mission in Madhya Pradesh's Morena resulting in the death of a wing commander while two other pilots ejected safely. The wreckage of Sukhoi-30 also fell in Rajasthan's Bharatpur.

Experts suggest that the two fighter jets suffered a mid-air collision, but there was no official comment on it from the IAF. 

According to PTI, Morena Collector Ankit Asthana said that the debris of both aircraft fell in the Pahargarh area of the district. Some debris also fell in Rajasthan's Bharatpur, which borders Madhya Pradesh, he said on Saturday. 

IAF earlier said that a high-level probe has been ordered into the accident. It further said that Mirage aircraft's pilot, identified as Wing Commander Hanumanth Rao Sarathi, died in the accident. The two pilots of the Sukhoi aircraft managed to eject and were taken to a military hospital, it said. 

Both the jets had taken off from the Gwalior Air Force station. The base has squadrons of both Sukhoi-30MKIs and the Mirage 2000 jets.