Jaguar Aircraft Crash

A pilot injured in the Indian Air Force Jaguar fighter plane crash in Jamnagar district of Gujarat on April 2 has been shifted to the Military Hospital in Kirkee in Pune. The two-seater IAF Jaguar aircraft airborne from Jamnagar airfield had crashed during a night mission, killing Flight Lieutenant Siddharth Yadav, while Group Captain Manish Kumar Singh (43) of 224 Squadron of the IAF in Jamnagar, sustained injuries. "Diagnosed with a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in the right leg and having received flame burn injuries in the incident, Singh initially was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Jamnagar but on Thursday was shifted to Military Hospital (MH), Kirkee. His condition is stable," Army Medical Corps sources said. MH Khadki is the premier orthopaedic institute of the armed forces. It is also the only centre in the armed forces catering exclusively to spinal cord injuries, they added. Since spinal cord injuries are relatively common in ejection injuries, patients

IAF further stated that one of the pilots tragically succumbed to injuries sustained during the ejection, while the second pilot is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Jamnagar

The aircraft was on routine training sortie when the incident occurred, the defence spokesperson said