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Video: IAF Fighter Jaguar Crashes, Pilots Eject Safely

An Indian Air Force fighter plane crashed near Allahabad on Tuesday morning. This is the second such incident in 2015

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An Indian Air Force Jaguar fighter aircraft crashed this morning during a training sortie in the Chaka area of Allahabad. Both the pilots ejected safely.

The aircraft had taken off at 7:25 am from IAF’s Central Air Command at Bamrauli, on the outskirts of the city. The fighter jet crashed at 8:47 am in an uninhabited field close to a Food Corporation of India warehouse at Chaka, about 50 kms away, according to the IAF and police. There was no casualty on the ground, they added.

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