March 3, 2010 7:53 PM

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Inquiry ordered into Navy's aerobatic plane crash

An inquiry has been ordered into the circumstances leading to the crash of Navy's Sagar Pawan Team aircraft during an aerobatic display at Hyderabad this morning.<br/><br/>The team was participating in the Aviation Expo 2010, a biennial event. Both the pilots Commander S.K.Maurya and Lt. Commander Rahul Nair were killed in the crash. They were based at Goa. The other three aircraft in the formation landed safely.<br/><br/>In an exclusive interview to All India Radio, Commander P.V.Satish of the Indian Navy said that the cause of mishap is yet to be ascertained.<br/><br/>Four civilians were injured, two of them seriously when the aircraft hit a nearby building in a residential locality and crash landed near the Begumpet airport.<br/><br/>air correspondent M.S. Lakshmi reports from Hyderabad that leaving the onlookers shell shocked, the Kiran MK-II trainer aircraft of the Sagar Pawan Aerobatic Demonstration Team of the Indian Navy’s Aviation wing spiralled out of formation and crashed all of a sudden in a residential locality near Begumpet airport . <br/><br/>According to the local police, one of the pilots made a futile effort to eject safely. He was found dead with his parachute intact. Rescue authorities removed the mangled bodies of Pilot Suresh Maurya and Co-pilot Rahul Nair.<br/>

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