The teams engaged in search and rescue of the Sukhoi-30 fighter jet that crashed in a forest along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border last week have found a blood stained shoe, wallet and a half-burnt PAN card of one of the two onboard pilots.
Sources close to one of the pilots revealed this on Tuesday while adding that the items were recovered by the search teams from the site where the aircraft crashed.
The search teams had earlier recovered the black box of the crashed fighter jet from the spot, which located close to 60 kms aerial distance from Assam’s Tezpur airbase.
“The search operations have been severely affected due to inclement weather conditions. However, search is continuing and teams are working hard to find every details,” said a senior Army official from Tezpur.
The aircraft that took off from Tezpur airbase of the Indian Air Force on May 23 around 10.30 am lost radar nd radio contact with the base and went missing. Three days later, the search teams located the wreckage of the
aircraft from a forested area along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.
