New Delhi / Jaisalmer: In another MIG-21 accident at IAF, another pilot was killed when his officials went down in the Jaisalmer area in Rajasthan on Friday night.
MIG-21 crashed into Sudasiri Village near the Indian-Pakistani border around 8:30 a.m.
Some eyewitnesses said the jet was burning in the air and hit a big explosion, with debris spread in the area of one km.
The pilot, which was identified as the commander of Wing Harshit Sinha, did not get the opportunity to issue from the plane.
The IAF has ordered a court about the investigation to determine the exact reason behind the accident, said an official.
Five Mig-21 has fallen this year, with three pilots killed in it.
On March 17, a highly experienced pilot, the captain of the Ashish Gupta Group, was posted in the school tactics ‘Top-gun’ IAF and the establishment of air combat development in Gwalior, was killed when MIG-21 crashed immediately after taking off from Gwalior Airbase.
Another pilot, Abhinav Choudhary Squadron leader (28), was killed when the ‘bison’ miG-21, who had departed from the airbase of Kaparh in Rajasthan for “sortie routine night combat training”, fell on May 20.
The old Soviet -Origin MIG-21, the first supersonic fighters really appointed by the IAF in 1963, has had a high level of accident for many years.
Of the 872 MiG-21 progressively appointed by IAF, more than 400 has been lost in an accident since 1971-72, killing more than 200 pilots and nearly 50 civilians in the field, as reported earlier by TOI.
MIG-21 should have retired for a long time.
But a big delay in induction of new fighters, especially the original Light Light Light Aircraft (LCA), the meaning of the IAF still operates four MIG-21 squadons (each of which has 16-18 jets) after increasing it into a ‘bison’ standard.
The pilot was killed when MIG-21 fell, 3rd death in this year’s accident this year
