downed aircraft show part from French

Unidentified aircraft has crashed inside Indian-administered Kashmir
From CNN’s Mukhtar Ahmad

An unidentified aircraft has crashed in Indian-administered Kashmir, according to an eyewitness and a local government official.

The aircraft came down in the village of Wuyan, which lies 19 kilometers to the southeast of Srinagar, the main city in Indian-administered Kashmir.

“We heard the sound of a flying plane and then there was a big explosion. We
rushed out of our homes in panic and saw it was on fire. Luckily no one was injured,” local resident Abdul Rashid told CNN.
A duty officer at the fire service headquarters in Srinagar told CNN that a fighter aircraft had crashed on a school building in Wuyan.

“Our personnel are still at the site and details are awaited,” the officer,
who requested anonymity, said.

Photos published by AFP news agency showed aircraft wreckage lying in a fieldnext to a red brick building in Wuyan, which CNN has also geolocated.

It was not immediately clear from the pictures of the wreckage who the aircraft belonged to.

Locals in Srinagar heard a loud explosion earlier on Wednesday around the time when India said it was conducting airstrikes against Pakistan.

Pictures of downed aircraft show part from French manufacturer
From CNN’s Brad Lendon
Pictures taken of parts of an aircraft that crashed in Indian-administered Kashmir show the label of a French manufacturer.

The label shows an aircraft part from French filtration company Le Bozec et Gautier. Le Bozec is a French-based subsidiary of Minnesota’s Donaldson Company.

A press release from Donaldson in 2005, when it acquired Le Bozec, says the French company “designs, manufactures and sells filtration equipment for the management of air, fuel, hydraulic fluid and air pressure on aircraft and helicopters.”
Pakistan claims to have shot down three of India’s top-of-the-line Rafale fighter jets. CNN has not been able to independently verify whether the part shown in the pictures came from a Rafale jet, nor Pakistan’s claims of shooting down the aircraft.

The Rafale fighters are made by France’s Dassault Aviation.

This post has been updated with additional information.

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