An Indian Air Force AN-32 transport aircraft crashed Friday near Jorhat in Assam, killing five personnel and leaving one survivor rescued from the wreckage, the defense ministry said.
The Soviet-origin turboprop, inducted in 1984, was on a routine mission when it went down in difficult terrain, prompting a ground search amid heavy monsoon cloud cover.
A court of inquiry will study maintenance logs, weather data and crew communications to determine why the airframe failed.
The accident is the third major AN-32 crash in a decade, following disasters in 2016 that killed 29 people and in 2019 that claimed 13 lives.
Aviation specialists have long urged accelerated modernization of the aging fleet, though upgrades and overhauls have extended some airframes beyond original service projections.
Local administration joined military teams in evacuating the injured survivor to a service hospital while notifying families of the deceased airmen.
The AN-32 fleet, acquired from the Soviet Union in 1984, has undergone periodic upgrades, yet Friday’s crash revives parliamentary questions about replacement timelines for aging transport wings.
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