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Choppers pressed into service to look for missing Jaguars

April 03, 2004 10:30 IST

The Indian Air Force on Saturday pressed into service specially equipped choppers and teams from the army and local police to look for two Jaguar fighter aircraft reported missing since Friday in Sonmarg near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

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An IAF spokesman said bad weather is hampering the search and added that no trace has been found yet of the machines or the pilots.

The search operations are being carried out on the mountains on either side of the Sindh river which bisects the Sonmarg valley.

The missing Jaguars were on a valley training sortie with two other fighter aircraft when they lost contact with ground control. All four aircraft had taken off from the Ambala airbase.


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