Third IAF Jaguar Crash In Five Months Claims Two Lives In Rajasthan’s Churu District

A fighter jet of the Indian Air Force, ‘Jaguar’, crashed in the Churu district of Rajasthan on Wednesday.

This IAF Jaguar crashed in the Bhanuda village near Ratangarh town of Churu district. This crash has claimed two lives.

According to sources, SP Churu, Jai Yadav, confirmed the jet crash and stated that he had sent a police team to the incident spot to assess the situation and carry out a search and rescue operation.

SP Jai Yadav said, “Severely mutilated body parts have been recovered near the wreckage.”

The crash spread the human remains and the debris of the aircraft around the site.

Taking to X, the IAF posted, “An IAF Jaguar Trainer aircraft met with an accident during a routine training mission and crashed near Churu in Rajasthan, today. Both pilots sustained fatal injuries in the accident. No damage to any civil property has been reported.”

The third Jaguar fighter jet crash

The villagers who witnessed the incident said that the aircraft was falling from the sky in a flick of flames. It crashed like a ball of fire in a field near Charanan Mohalla on Sikrali Road of the village that is roughly 12 kilometres from Jamnagar city.

The villagers found the burning parts and remains of the Jaguar scattered within a radius of 200 feet

When the aircraft crashed, the locals rushed to the site. They suspected that nearly one or two personnel may have been on the jet during the crash.

A local villager said that the natives of the nearby area rushed to the spot when a burning aircraft caught their attention while coming down.

He said, “Villagers from not only Bhanuda but also from nearby villages have reached the spot.”

The crashed aircraft is a twin-engine, ground-attack fighter-bomber, available in single and twin-seat variants.

The Jaguar aircraft that crashed on Wednesday is a twin-engine aircraft. It is a ground-attack fighter-bomber that comes in single and twin-seat variants.

The Indian Air Force widely uses these fighter planes. Engineers have heavily upgraded them over the years. Besides their vintage status, the Indian Air Force widely uses these fighter planes. They have been heavily upgraded over the years.

Sadly, this is the third Jaguar fighter jet crash this year within 5 months.

The first Jaguar crash took place on March 7 this year. A system malfunction caused an Air Force plane to go down in Haryana’s Panchkula, and the pilot ejected safely.

The second Jaguar crash was followed on April 2 near Jamnagar in Gujarat.

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