A private training aircraft operated by Redbird Flight Training Academy has made a forced landing in a field near Vijayapura in Karnataka.
The Civil Aviation Ministry has informed that the aircraft made a forced landing following suspected fuel starvation. It said that the flight instructor and a trainee pilot who were on board are safe. It added that the aircraft was damaged due to the impact.
The aircraft VT-EUC, which was flying from Kalaburagi to Belagavi crashed landed in an open field near Vijayapura and the site is around 50 to 70 kilometres from the Belagavi airport.
The flight instructor and a trainee pilot were onboard the aircraft, which broke into three pieces after the crash landing, sources said.
In a statement on Sunday evening, the ministry said the force landing happened “due to suspected fuel starvation experienced by the aircraft” and that the plane was manufactured in 1975