Aircraft crashes near Pokhran range near Jaisalmer, pilot safe
Pokhran/ Rajasthan: A MiG-27 aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Pokhran range in Rajasthan. The aircraft was on a routine training mission. the aircraft had taken off from Jaisalmer. The pilot ejected to safety, reported news agency ANI.
A detailed statement from the Indian Air Force is awaited. "The MiG-27 was on a training mission. After taking off from Jaisalmer around 6.10 pm, it crashed near Pokhran range. The pilot ejected safely," news agency ANI quoted an IAF spokesperson as saying.
The accident comes hours ahead of the scheduled exercise- Vayushakti, at the Pokhran range. The crash came on a day Air Marshal Anil Khosla, Vice Chief of Air Staff expressed concern over the death of two IAF pilots in a Mirage -2000 crashes.
The MiG-27 crash comes on the backdrop of two recent crashes of IAF jets- a Mirage -2000 fighter jet which crashed at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru on February 1 in which two pilots- Squadron Leader Siddharth Negi(31) and Squadron Leader Sameer Abrol(33) died, and another one on January 28, when a Jaguar fighter jet of the IAF crashed near Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The Jaguar aircraft was on a routine sortie and had taken off from Gorakhpur Air Force Station. The pilot had ejected to safety. Meanwhile, in September last year, another MiG-27 aircraft had crashed near Jodhpur, Rajasthan, when it was on a routine sortie. The pilot had ejected to safety and no loss of life was reported.
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A detailed statement from the Indian Air Force is awaited. "The MiG-27 was on a training mission. After taking off from Jaisalmer around 6.10 pm, it crashed near Pokhran range. The pilot ejected safely," news agency ANI quoted an IAF spokesperson as saying.
The accident comes hours ahead of the scheduled exercise- Vayushakti, at the Pokhran range. The crash came on a day Air Marshal Anil Khosla, Vice Chief of Air Staff expressed concern over the death of two IAF pilots in a Mirage -2000 crashes.
The MiG-27 crash comes on the backdrop of two recent crashes of IAF jets- a Mirage -2000 fighter jet which crashed at the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru on February 1 in which two pilots- Squadron Leader Siddharth Negi(31) and Squadron Leader Sameer Abrol(33) died, and another one on January 28, when a Jaguar fighter jet of the IAF crashed near Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The Jaguar aircraft was on a routine sortie and had taken off from Gorakhpur Air Force Station. The pilot had ejected to safety. Meanwhile, in September last year, another MiG-27 aircraft had crashed near Jodhpur, Rajasthan, when it was on a routine sortie. The pilot had ejected to safety and no loss of life was reported.
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