New Delhi, March 6 An Indian Air Force (IAF) Su-30 MKI fighter jet crashed in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Thursday. The IAF said that the search operation for the aircraft is ongoing.
There is no information available about the pilots of the aircraft.
The Su-30MKI, which was on a training mission, crashed in the Karbi Anglong area, approximately 60 km from Jorhat, the IAF said in a brief statement.
Search operations are underway, it said.
Earlier, officials had said that the aircraft went missing shortly after taking off from the Jorhat airbase.
Communication with the Russian-origin aircraft was lost at 7:42 pm, they had said.
The Su-30MKI is a two-seater, multirole, long-range fighter jet developed by the Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi. It is now being manufactured under license by HAL for the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The IAF operates a fleet of over 260 Su-30MKI jets. A Sukhoi fighter plane had crashed in the Nashik district of Maharashtra in June 2024. Another Sukhoi-30 jet had crashed in January 2023, after taking off from the Gwalior airbase.
