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Fighter Pilot sacrifices his own life to save a village...

In a tragic incident, an Indian Air Force Jaguar aircraft crashed on Tuesday morning killing its pilot Air Commodore Sanjay Chauhan. The incident took place at around 10:30 in the morning in the Mundra taluk of the Kutch region in northwestern Gujarat. According to sources, Commodore Chauhan took off the aircraft from Jamnagar Airbase for a routine training mission when the fighter jet crashed near Bareja village. Sources said Commodore Chauhan didn’t eject from the aircraft when the incident occurred because it was over the village and could have taken many lives. A Court of Inquiry into the incident has been ordered by the air headquarters to investigate the cause of the accident, the sources added. 

The plane’s debris was strewn far and wide on the outskirts of the village, locals said.