In the fighter jet crash, the deceased pilot flying the Indian Air Force s Mirage 2000 aircraft has been identified as Wing Commander Hanumanth Rao Sarathi.
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The black box of Mirage 2000 and a part of the flight data recorder of Sukhoi-30MKI jet, which crashed in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, have been found from the wreckage, an official said on Sunday.
Defence experts have said it is probable that the Russian-designed Sukhoi-30MKI jet and the French Mirage-2000 had a mid-air collision, but there was no official comment.