Photo: AFPTezpur/New Delhi: The black box of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet that went missing with two pilots on board has been recovered from a dense forest in Arunachal Pradesh, two days after wreckage of the plane was sighted. The Indian Air Force has already ordered a court of inquiry into the crash. The wreckage was spotted from air, and search teams reached the crash site on Sunday only. The first batch of the Russia-made fighter jet was inducted by the IAF in the late 1990s. A frontline fighter jet, SU-30 MKI aircraft were deployed in the Tezpur airbase on 15 June 2009 for guarding the Sino-India frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.

Source: Mint May 28, 2017 14:26 UTC