New Delhi: Wreckage of the Indian Air Force’s Sukhoi 30 fighter jet, which went missing on Tuesday, was found in a heavily forested area of Arunachal Pradesh. The area is covered in dense foliage and the wreckage was found close to the last known location of the aircraft.
The jet had lost radar and radio contact 60km north of Tezpur in Assam. Two pilots were on-board the aircraft.
The Sukhoi Su-30 is a Russian-made, twin-engine fighter meant for all-weather, air-to-air and air-to-surface missions. The first of the Su-30 planes were inducted by the IAF in the late 1990s.
Since their induction, six crashes have taken place. An inquiry into the plane accidents has primarily indicated technical failure as their cause.
However, both the pilots of the twin-engine aircraft ejected safely.
The government had, earlier this month, informed the Rajya Sabha that as many as 22 fighter aircraft of IAF have crashed since 2013-14 and human error and technical defects were the main reasons for the accidents.
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