Trainee aircraft crashes near Indapur, Pune; Pilot injured

The aircraft was completely damaged after the incident, but luckily the pilot only sustained injuries; and was immediately rushed to the nearby hospital in Baramati, where he is currently undergoing a treatment.

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a trainee aircraft of Carver aviation, a pilot training institute crashed near Indapur in Pune, Maharashtra. The incident has left a trainee pilot injured. The aircraft was completely damaged after the incident, but luckily the pilot only sustained injuries; and was immediately rushed to the nearby hospital in Baramati, where he is currently undergoing a treatment. The reason behind the crash is yet to be known. This incident comes only days after An Indian Air Force's Jaguar fighter plane crashed in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, the aircraft was on a routine sortie from Gorakhpur Air Force station. The pilot manged to eject safely with a help of a parachute, but the plane was reduced to rubbles.

Maharashtra: A trainee aircraft of Carver aviation (pilot training institute) has crashed near Indapur, Pune. The trainee pilot, who is injured, has been rushed to a hospital in Baramati. More details awaited. pic.twitter.com/1fvIp96Fbm

— ANI (@ANI) February 5, 2019

Earlier a MiG 27 crashed near Jodhpur's Banad area on September 4, 2018. Also, in a similar incident on June 5, 2018, Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan passed away after his Jaguar fighter plane went down in the Mundra taluk of the Kutch region in northwestern Gujarat.

More details on the same are awaited.