An-32 cargo plane crash kills 5 IAF men in Assam
Aircraft belonging to the 43 Squadron crashes while attempting to land at the IAF airbase in Jorhat; station sealed after crash, court of inquiry being set up to ascertain cause of the accident, says IAF.Five Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel were killed after an An-32 cargo aircraft met with an accident while landing at the Jorhat airbase in eastern Assam on Saturday.
The deceased were Squadron Leader Prashant Singh, Flight Lieutenant Shubham Kumar, Sergeant Jitendra Sharma, Agniveervayu Khemaram Kumawat, and Agniveervayu Danish Alam, the IAF said in a statement.
Six personnel were on the plane and the co-pilot is undergoing treatment at a military hospital in Jorhat for injuries, the news agency PTI reported.
The IAF did not provide details of the accident, but said it occurred at 10 a.m. while the aircraft, belonging to 43 Squadron, was landing at its airbase in the Rowriah area of Jorhat.
“A court of inquiry is being constituted to ascertain the cause of the accident,” the IAF statement read.
The PTI reported that the aircraft was set to fly to Chabua from Jorhat, but requested a landing shortly after taking off.
The aircraft lost control upon touchdown and skidded off the runway, hurtling across a parallel taxiway and snapping into two segments before being engulfed in flames, the PTI added, citing sources.
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