"Today morning a Jaguar aircraft on a routine training mission from Jamnagar crashed around 10:30 hours. [05:00 GMT] The pilot Air Cmde Sanjay Chauhan sustained fatal injuries during the crash. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate the cause of the accident," the statement reads.
The plane fell near Beraja-Ramaniya village in the Indian state of Gujarat. Debris of the aircraft could be found in a two-mile area, while the search for the black box is underway.
The SEPECAT Jaguar is a British-French jet attack aircraft originally used by the British Royal Air Force and the French Air Force. A significantly upgraded form of the jet is still widely used with the Indian Air Force.