ALERT: Navy aircraft crashes in Goa, pilots safe

NEW DELHI: 

A MiG-29K fighter jet belonging to the Indian Navy crashed shortly after it took off from a naval station near Goal’s Dabolim today. The pilots – Captain M Sheokhand and Lieutenant Commander Deepak Yadav – ejected safely. According to Commander Vivek Madhwal, a Navy spokesperson, the plane, a trainer version of the fighter, suffered an engine fire.