An instructor and a trainee pilot of a private aviation academy were killed after their aircraft crashed in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police said Saturday, APA reports citing Xinhua.
The aircraft crashed Friday night at Dhana in Sagar district, about 188 km east of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh.
"Last night at around 9:30 (local time), a single-engine trainee aircraft of the Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA) crashed here in an agricultural field close to Dhana airport," a police official posted in Sagar said. "Two people, instructor, Ashok Makwana and trainee pilot, Piyush Chandel, were killed in the crash."
Officials said the area was covered with fog at the time of the crash.
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