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Two pilots die after air crash in India


AN Indian navy plane performing aerobatics at an air show crashed into a building in southern India yesterday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring four people on the ground, police said.

Admiral Nirmal Verma, the navy chief, said the pilots could not eject and were killed in the crash as the plane hit a building in a residential area near Begumpet airport in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.

"The aircraft went out of control. But the cause of the crash was not immediately known," said Verma. A police commissioner said the plane hit a water tank on a multistory building.

The crash occurred as the plane dived while performing aerobatics, but failed to regain height, TV images showed.



 

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