Kurukshetra/Ambala: A Jaguar aircraft of the Indian Air Force today crashed in agricultural fields near Shahbad town with the pilot ejecting safely from the plane, which eyewitnesses claimed narrowly missed a school building as it fell to the ground.
The fighter jet crashed near Landa-Landi village, 12-km from Shahbad in Kurukshetra district of Haryana at about 1.15 P.M., police said, adding that there were no casualties or injuries at the site where the aircraft had crashed.
The spot where the aircraft crashed after taking off from the Ambala air force base lies along the Ambala-Kurukshetra border and is located about 65-km from Chandigarh.
According to Shahbad Station House Officer Ramesh Kumar, the pilot of the jet, Flt. Lt. Vivek Chaudhary, safely bailed out using a parachute just seconds before the plane crashed into the wheat fields.
05/03/15 PTI/Economic Times
The fighter jet crashed near Landa-Landi village, 12-km from Shahbad in Kurukshetra district of Haryana at about 1.15 P.M., police said, adding that there were no casualties or injuries at the site where the aircraft had crashed.
The spot where the aircraft crashed after taking off from the Ambala air force base lies along the Ambala-Kurukshetra border and is located about 65-km from Chandigarh.
According to Shahbad Station House Officer Ramesh Kumar, the pilot of the jet, Flt. Lt. Vivek Chaudhary, safely bailed out using a parachute just seconds before the plane crashed into the wheat fields.
05/03/15 PTI/Economic Times
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