March 3, 2010 6:53 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/>

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