A Russian-made Indian military transport plane crashed while landing at an air force station in the country's remote northeast, the military has said in a statement.

"An IAF An-32 aircraft met with an accident today while landing at Jorhat. A court of inquiry is being constituted, to ascertain the cause of the accident," the statement said on Saturday, without giving any details about casualties.

News channel NDTV broadcast images of the crash site, showing a thick black plume of smoke and the aircraft apparently broken into pieces.