An aircraft with two trainee pilots on board crashed in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Saturday, police said.
A charred body of a man was found in the mountains of Lanji and Kirnapur areas, about 40 km from the Balaghat district headquarters, near the crash site, Superintendent of Police Sameer Saurabh informed.
He said efforts are on to identify the body while a search is on for the woman trainee pilot who is missing. As per the preliminary information, trainer aircraft had taken off from Birsi airport in Gondia district Maharashtra bordering Balaghat, police officer said.