India has been looking to buy an advanced jet trainer aircraft to help train its fighter pilots.

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The Kansas-based company was hoping to maintain a workforce of roughly 800 people currently building the T-6, a trainer aircraft, that they ideally wanted to move to the new government contract if successful in the bidding process.

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The aircraft, an aerobatics trainer, was in the middle of the lake, which was "murky" and deep, he added.

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