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.