Pune: Training aircraft crashes near village; pilot, 1 more person hospitalised

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On Thursday, a training aircraft with two persons onboard crashed near a village in Pune district, officials told PTI. According to the report, the pilot and one more person on board the plane were taken to a nearby hospital. The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

The officials said that the flight belonged to a private flight training academy. Without divulging much details about probable injuries, they said that the crash happened in Baramati taluka on the district.

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"A training aircraft belonging to Redbird Institute (Redbird Flight Training Academy) crashed near Katfal village under Baramati taluka at around 5 pm. The pilot and one more person, maybe the co-pilot, were on board, and they were taken to a hospital," Prabhakar More, inspector, Baramati police station was quoted as saying in the PTI report.

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