https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/india-pakistan-operation-sindoor-05-08-2...


39 min ago



From CNN’s Aishwarya S Iyer, Esha Mitra, Aditi Sangal and Lex Harvey
Eyewitnesses and a local official in northern India’s Punjab have told CNN a plane crashed out of the night sky on Wednesday — around the same time Pakistan claims to have shot down five Indian jets.

India has not commented on the claims, nor can CNN independently verify them.

Eyewitness accounts: An agricultural worker who lives in Aklain Kalan village in Bathinda in Punjab said he heard a loud explosion around 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday.

“It was an unidentified aircraft that had crashed. We rushed to it and sparks were coming out of it.”

He said one person died and several were injured from the fire.




A grocery store owner who lives near the site of the crash said he and his family also heard the explosions.

“It was very scary. We all sat and stared at the fire. After the aircraft fell, it continued to make some noises before it kept burning. Yes, people have been injured in the village.”

CNN has chosen not to name the eyewitnesses.

A local government official confirmed to CNN that an aircraft crashed into a wheat field in Aklain Kalan village in Bathinda, Punjab at around 2 a.m. that night. He said the aircraft was unidentified but “seems to be ours.”

Indian media reports: While there have been no reports or official confirmation from authorities on any crash in Punjab, Indian media outlets have reported an aircraft crashed at the site around the same time, with one dead and nine injured.

Dr Dheera Gupta at a government hospital near the crash site told CNN that 10 people were brought to her hospital, of whom one was declared dead.

It is not clear who the aircraft belonged to.

freediver wrote on May 8^th, 2025 at 5:12pm:



"The first casualty of war is the truth" -

maybe we won't know for 10 years?

chimera wrote on May 8^th, 2025 at 5:21pm:


By coincidence. I just happened to be hanging out relaxing in the abode where that Yeti skull cap is kept back in 1994. Listening and watching a few monks praying. The wooden door opened and a little old Sherpa woman (nun) walked in, followed by a trekker tourist in the latest Gucci attire. The male monks kept praying as if this was nothing out of the ordinary. She went across the incense smoked room to retrieve a wooden box from under a table and opened it for the rich Gucci man. Who looked in it where she pulled out a semi cranial skull cap. He took it by hand by his right of sceptical  curiosity, examined it, then gave it back. He didn't seem convinced. What he was convinced by though, was the payment he gave to the old woman for the chance to see the 'vely mysterious' Yeti skull. In which he handed over with an emptiness unfulfilled and departed.
I laughed a bit out loud, when the old woman put the box back under the table, gave a male monk half the money and winked at me on the way out to get another sucker. My laugh brought a discreet contained smirk by the male monks trying to hide their inner laughter. 🤭

It was a very Buddhist moment indeed.

I hope mainstream Media have a lot of their journalists over there to cover the action of nukes making impacts on their ratings.

UnSubRocky wrote on May 8^th, 2025 at 9:59pm:



Trump has overestimated his power in the world.

The USA is in decline.

It's just not cricket.

Bobby. wrote on May 11^th, 2025 at 11:47am:

Yes. He said to the Tsar 'stop it' and he said to the English chaps darkies to stop. He is the real Pope, bless him and his big mouth and big pen.