They were used to hearing the fighter jets from the nearby airbase. But this noise was louder and less familiar: a roar punctuated by repeated explosions. Residents of Akalia Kalan, a village in northern India, leapt from their beds as it grew closer on the night of May 7th. Outside, they saw a ball of flames pass low overhead and crash into a nearby cornfield. The wreckage was clearly identifiable as a fighter. Two bystanders died, according to villagers. The two Indian pilots ejected earlier and were found, injured, in fields nearby.