MiG 21 crashed, pilot died
BIKANER: On Tuesday a MiG-21 fighter aircraft crashed killing the pilot, soon after taking off from Naal airfield in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district.
Defence spokesperson S D Goswami said, “The pilot ejected but died due to injuries sustained by him.”
The MiG-21 ‘Type-96’ aircraft was on a routine sortie and crashed near the airfield, which is about 15 kilo metres from Bikaner city, he said.
It is a second crash of a MiG series fighter aircraft this year. On February 4, an IAF MiG-21 ‘Bison’ fighter plane had crashed apparently due to an engine problem while on a routine sortie in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district but the pilot had ejected safely that time.
Last year in 2010 unfortunately a total of 10 IAF aircraft crashes took place including four MiG-27 and two MiG-21 planes.
