Two Indian Air Force pilots were killed on Thursday when their Sukhoi-30MKI jet crashed near Chokihola in Karbi Anglong district of Assam during a training mission.Sqn Ldr Anuj and Flt Lt Purvesh Duragkar sustained fatal injuries in the Sukhoi-30 crash, the IAF said in a post on Friday morning.The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed the crash of the Russian-origin aircraft at 1 am on Friday.Officials said the Sukhoi-30 MKI went missing shortly after taking off from the Jorhat airbase.Communication with the Russian-origin aircraft was lost at 7.42 pm on Thursday and an IAF team was constituted to ascertain the facts, the officials had said yesterday.The IAF confirmed that the jet had crashed some 60 km south of Jorhat.The Su-30MKI is a two-seater multirole long-range fighter jet developed by Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi. It is now built under licence by HAL for the IAF.The IAF operates a fleet of over 260 Su-30MKI jets. A Sukhoi fighter plane had crashed in the Nashik district of Maharashtra in June 2024. Another Sukhoi-30 jet had crashed in January 2023, after taking off from the Gwalior airbase.