Sukhoi Su-30 crash: Blood-stained shoe, wallet of pilot found from wreckage
The wreckage of the fighter jet, which went missing on May 23, was found on May 26 through aerial recce, in a thick forest around 60 km from Tezpur in Assam.
In Short
- Some belongings of a pilot found from wreckage of crashed Sukhoi.
- No trace of bodies of the two pilots who were flying the combat jet.
- Sukhoi Su-30 crashed on May 23 near China border after taking off from Tezpur air base.
A blood-stained shoe, a half-burnt PAN card and wallet of one of the two pilots on board the Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet, which crashed near Assam-Arunachal border last week, have been found.
Search and rescue teams have found belongings of the pilots flying the combat jet from the crash site located in a dense forest.
"Search operations are continuing despite bad weather conditions. However, there is still no trace of the two pilots," Indian Army sources said.
The wreckage of the fighter jet, which went missing on May 23, was found on May 26 through aerial recce, in a thick forest around 60 km from Tezpur in Assam.
The Su-30 had taken off from the Tezpur air base, around 10.30 am on a routine training mission but lost radar and radio contact with the controlling station around 11.10 am near Arunachal Pradesh's Doulasang area, adjoining China.
Tezpur has one of the three IAF air bases in the country that host the Sukhoi jets.
(With inputs from IANS)
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