Kharagpur, Jitesh Borkar: Kalaikunda during exercise in Sukhnibasa Diyasa village of West Medinipur district. Air Force (Air Force, Army fighter plane crashed. After the crash, the damaged part of the fighter plane fell in a field. Both the Air Force pilots survived with the help of parachute. An Air Force helicopter also reached the incident site. There is panic among the villagers after the incident. A crowd of people gathered at the incident site to see the damaged war plane. According to the villagers, the incident occurred on Tuesday between 3 pm and 3.30 pm.
A crater was formed in the field due to the bomb falling.
Suddenly there was a loud noise in the area and a war plane fell from the sky into the field. Both the pilots also saved their lives by jumping into the field using parachute. It is being told that the war plane of Kalaikuda Air Force crashed while practicing. However, Kalaikunda Air Force officials are refusing to say anything in detail about this. It is known that just a day before the war plane crash, i.e. on Monday, during the exercise in Chamtidanga area of Jhargram district, due to throwing a bomb at the wrong target, the electric wire from the high tension tower was broken and due to the fall of the bomb, a crater was formed in the field. I went.
The bomb dropped is inside the firing range
The place where the bomb fell is inside the firing range. Therefore no one was injured. However, the paddy of many villagers got burnt. The next day of this incident, the entire war plane crashed in the paddy fields of Kharagpur. There is an atmosphere of panic in the area after this incident. However, there is no news of any casualty in this incident.