Hyderabad: The pilot and co-pilot died and four persons were injured when a Navy plane crashed at an international aviation exhibition and hit a building in a residential area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad.
Officials tell CNN-IBN the aircraft belonged to the Indian Navy's aerobatic Sagar Pawan team and it crashed into a two-storied building while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre with three other aircraft.
The aircraft, part of the Navy's aerobatics team that uses four trainers, was unable to pull up from a dive and went into a spiral as the planes were breaking away from the formation and going at different directions.
The air show began at 11:05 am and 15 minutes into the air show one of the aircraft was seen breaking away. IANS reports the aircraft was an HJT-16 Kiran Mk2 trainer built by Hindustan Aeronautics.
Witnesses said they heard a loud boom, after which the plane went down. A thick cloud of smoke rose to the sky near the Begumpet airport following the accident.
source : IBN