India, Feb. 6 -- A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft crashed near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh while it was on a routine training sortie on Thursday.

A Court of Inquiry is being ordered to ascertain the cause of the crash, Defence officials cited by news agency ANI said.

More details are awaited.

Visuals from the crash site showed the pieces of the aircraft on fire, with plumes of smoke arising from them.

In November 2024, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed into a field near Uttar Pradesh's Agra during a routine training sortie due to a technical glitch. The pilot ejected himself to safety at the time of the crash.

The plane had taken off from Adampur in Punjab and was on its way to Agra for an exercise when the incident happened.

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