Light trainer aircraft crash-lands near Amethi in UP, pilot safe

A trainee pilot escaped death when his light aircraft crash-landed near Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on June 13, damaging its fuselage, reports PTI.

A light aircraft crash-landed on June 13 damaging the fuselage, but the trainee pilot narrowly escaped the death. Abhay Patel, the trainee pilot, was safe after the emergency landing, media in-charge of the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA) R K Dwivedi said. Patel had taken off on a training sortie from the academy but had to make an emergency landing in the nearby Mohammadpur Churai village on the Amethi-Rae Bareli border.

During the landing, the front portion of the aircraft got damaged, Dwivedi said. Patel got enrolled at IGRUA in 2021 and has completed 27 hours of flying, he said.

It's a developing story, more inputs awaited.

(With inputs from PTI) 

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