Tezpur/New Delhi, May 28 (PTI) 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 wreckage was spotted from air, and search teams reached the crash site today only. The plane was part of a two-aircraft formation when it went missing. 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 June 15, 2009 for guarding the Sino- India frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.

Source: India Today May 28, 2017 14:03 UTC