A private training aircraft crashed near the Ganga Barrage in Kanpur on Thursday, resulting in the immediate death of both the pilot and the instructor on board.
Local authorities confirmed the crash occurred during a routine training sortie, with emergency teams recovering the bodies from the wreckage site by mid-afternoon.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has launched a formal inquiry into the incident to determine if technical failure or weather conditions caused the fatal descent.