NEW DELHI  – Two pilots were killed in the morning as a twin-seat Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 crashed at Yemlur Airport in the southern city of Bengaluru immediately after taking off. “Two pilots were killed after they ejected from a Mirage 2000 fighter during its take-off run at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited runway in Yemalur in Bengaluru this morning,” NDTV reported quoting Indian Air Force officials this morning. The incident took place at 10:30 am (local time). The Mirage 2000 is equipped with ‘zero-zero’ (zero speed, zero altitude) ejection seats which enable the pilots to … Continue reading Two pilots dead as fighter jet crashes in Bengaluru