A power glider of Indian Navy crashed near the BOT Bridge at 7.15 am on Sunday. Both the crew members died on the spot. They have been identified as Lieutenant Rajiv Jha (39) and Petty Officer Sunil Kumar (29).
While Jha was from Dehradun, Kumar hailed from Bhoj in Bihar. The glider was on a routine training sortie when it developed technical glitch and crashed down. The glider and the staff belonged to INS Garuda, the naval air station of the Southern Naval Command.
The debris of the glider has been taken to the Southern Naval Command headquarters at Kochi and a board of inquiry has been ordered by the Indian Navy.