Senior officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan died in a Jaguar fighter jet’s crash near Mundra town of bordering Kutch district of Gujarat during a routine training session on Tuesday.
Commodore Chauhan left early in a Jaguar fighter jet from Jamnagar airbase and flew through Bay of Kutch till the fighter plane crashed at an open grassland of Beraja village near Mundra town around 10.30 am.
“A Jaguar aircraft on a routine training mission from Jamnagar crashed. The pilot sustained fatal injuries during the crash. Court of enquiry has been ordered to investigate cause of the incident,” said lt Colonel Manish Ojha, Defence Spokesperson, Gujarat.
A few cows grazing in the grassland died in the crash, but there was no other human casualty.