"Today at about 1400 hrs one IAF Kiran aircraft on a routine training mission crashed around 50km from the Air Force Station, Hakimpet, Hyderabad. The trainee pilot ejected safely," a defence release said here.
Medical aid was provided to the trainee pilot after the crash at Duddeda village in Siddipet district, police said.
A Court of Inquiry has been ordered into the cause of the crash, the release added.
Last September, a Kiran aircraft of the IAF crashed near here and the pilot had ejected safely.
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