Agra, December 19
A vintage bomber aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed near here today shortly after take off killing its two occupants — the pilot and the navigator, the police said.Pilot Sq Ldr Berry and Flight Lt Anurag Sharma were on a routine flight on board the 1950 Canberra plane when it developed engine problem minutes after taking off from Thekkeria airfield near Jataura village this afternoon, Senior Superintendent of Police Rajeev Krishna said.
The debris of the plane, along with the mutilated body parts of the two IAF personnel, was scattered over a 1 km square area near the village.
Eyewitnesses said the plane caught fire and circled four times over the village before the pilot took it away to avert a major disaster on the ground.
There was no casualty or damage on the ground, he added.
— PTI
