The black box of the Jaguar fighter aircraft that crashed in Dilahi Firozpur village, killing a pilot and a girl, was found on Saturday.
The black box or digital flight data recorder, which was essential for probing the cause of the crash, was located by the village youths in a pit filled with water this afternoon and was handed over to the IAF personnel, police said.
The debris of the aircraft was scattered in a radius of about a kilometre across agricultural fields which had a standing crop and were inundated with rain water.
After the direction of the IAF team, which had arrived here from Gorakhpur on Friday, locals emptied a pit filled with water and found the black box. Around 70 personnel of the IAF came down to search for the black box in the agricultural fields. The IAF personnel had also brought a dummy black box to show to the locals to help them locate the original device and had sought their help in this task.
The single-seater aircraft had crashed on August 4 in an agricultural field, killing the pilot, Flight Lieutenant S Pandey. A girl who was hit by a splinter on ground from the crashed aircraft also died while two others were injured in the incident.