On Thursday, January 5, a training aircraft crashed in the Rewa area in Madhya Pradesh, 400 kilometres from the state capital Bhopal. The plane crashed 3 km away from Chorhatta airstrip after hitting the dome of a temple and a tree while on a training sortie. The plane that went down belonged to the Falcon training academy, said Rewa Superintendent of Police Navneet Bhasin.
The captain of the aircraft, Vishal Yadav (30), a resident of Patna died while the trainee pilot Anshul Yadav, a resident of Jaipur, who was on board, was injured in the incident.
The mishap took place at around 11.30 pm on Thursday, said an official.
Madhya Pradesh | A pilot died while another was injured after a plane crashed into a temple in Rewa district during the training: Rewa SP Navneet Bhasin pic.twitter.com/KumJTAlALs
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According to reports, the trainee pilot who was injured in the collision is being treated at Rewa’s Sanjay Gandhi Hospital.
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Rewa collector Manoj Pushp and Superintendent of Police Navneet Bhasin have reached the spot and further details about the crash were awaited, district officials said.
A team of police personnel reached the spot. Prima facie, bad weather and fog condition prevailing in the area are being attributed as the reason for the crash.
