A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed today near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh while it was on a routine training sortie.
Both pilots are safe, officials said.
A court of inquiry has been ordered to find out the cause of the crash.
The multirole fighter jet Mirage 2000, built by France’s Dassault Aviation, flew for the first time in 1978.
The French Air Force inducted it in 1984; 600 Mirage 2000 were produced, of which 50 per cent were exported to eight countries including India, Dassault says on its website.
There is also a single-seater version of the Mirage 2000.
In the IAF, the Mirage 2000 saw action in the Kargil war with a high success rate. It dropped laser-guided bombs on hilltops occupied by terrorists and Pakistani forces with great accuracy.
The IAF also used the reliable jet to bomb a terrorist camp deep inside Pakistan’s Balakot in February 2019.
A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed today near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh while it was on a routine training sortie.
