A Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on Thursday in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district, the IAF said, adding that search operations are currently underway to locate the aircraft.
There was no immediate information about the pilots on board.
In a brief statement, the IAF said the Su-30MKI, which had taken off on a training sortie, went down in the Karbi Anglong area, about 60 km from Jorhat. “Search operations are underway,” the statement said.
Earlier, officials had indicated that the aircraft went missing soon after departing from the Jorhat airbase.
Contact with the Russian-origin fighter jet was lost at 7:42 pm, they said.
The Su-30MKI is a twin-seat, multirole, long-range fighter aircraft developed by the Russian aerospace company Sukhoi. It is currently manufactured under licence in India by HAL for the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The IAF operates a fleet of more than 260 Su-30MKI aircraft. In June 2024, a Sukhoi fighter jet had crashed in Maharashtra’s Nashik district. Another Su-30 aircraft had crashed in January 2023 after taking off from the Gwalior airbase.
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