Just a couple of days after the tragic incident in which Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jet Jaguar crashed and its pilot Air Commodore Sanjai Chauhan killed in Gujarat, in another occurrence on Friday a pilot of the jet narrowly escaped unhurt.
Confirming the mishap IAF’s official sources said around 9.20 am, pilot of a Jaguar aircraft on a routine training mission from Jamnagar safely ejected when the aircraft developed a snag during the landing phase. It was a minor mishap said sources adding that the pilot is safe as he successfully landed the aircraft.
It was during the landing that there was some technical glitch and fire was seen emanating from underbelly of the aircraft, sources informed.
It is worth mentioning that on Tuesday Air Commodore Chauhan, who had taken off on a routine sortie from Jamnagar Air Force Base on a routine mission saw his aircraft crash at Bareja village in Mundra taluka of bordering Kutch district Kutch district. The impact of that crash was such that debris was seen strewn all over and other than fatal injury to the pilot. As the aircraft fell down on a herd of cows, more than a dozen cows were killed in that incident. IAF has already initiated a court of inquiry in to the mishap to investigate the cause.