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Chronology of MiG crashes

PTI | Byhindustantimes.com, New Delhi
Aug 12, 2003 06:30 PM IST

Following is the chronology of crashes involving MiG-21s in India since 2002.

 Other Military Crashes



Nov 5, 2002:  Five people were kiled after a Jaguar fighter of IAF crashed into a residential area near an airbase in Haryana. 




Mar 25, 1991: 25 people were    killed in an IAF Avro-HS-748 mishap near Yelahanka station. 



Aug 6, 2002: An IAF Cheetah copter crashed near Leh in J&K killing both its pilot and co-pilot.



Mar 7, 1999:
At least 21 people including 18 IAF men were killed when IAF Antonov-32 transport plane crashed-landed near IGI Airport in Delhi. This was the first time so many defence personnel were killed in a single crash.

Following is the chronology of MiG-21 crashes

since 2002

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July 15

: A twin-seater MiG-21 fighter-trainer crashed near Srinagar airbase. Both pilots -- Wing Commander R Rastogi and Flight Lieutenant Ganesh, were killed. The jet hit the ground after it suffered loss of power while trying to pull up from a low-flying position. This was the sixth IAF fighter and the fifth of the MiG series to crash in 2003.

June 4, 2003: A MiG-21 aircraft of Indian Air Force crashed shortly after take-off from Uttarlai Air Base in Rajasthan killing the pilot. Flight Lt AS Jamwal was killed after the aircraft caught fire and plunged into a nearby field in Barmer.

April 4, 2002: A MIG-21 crashed in Jodhpur district in Rajasthan. The pilot bailed out safely.

May: At least seven people died when a MiG-21 crashed into a residential area in Punjab.

June 26: A MiG-27 caught fire on the runway at the military airport in Srinagar.

June 26:
A Mig-23 fighter crashed in Punjab at the peak of Indo-Pak tensions but the Pilot ejected safely.

July 15: A MiG-21 aircraft caught fire in mid-air and crashed into a pond in a sparsely-populated village near Phansidewa in Darjeeling district in West Bengal. The pilot and a trainee pilot ejected and were rescued with minor injuries.

Sept 9: Two fighter planes of MiG-21 variant, which had been cleared for flying after being grounded for weeks, crashed in Haryana and Rajasthan. The pilots bailed out unhurt. One jet crashed in the fields on the outskirts of Chaurmaspur village near Ambala cantonment while another crashed in Shivpur in Pali district in Rajasthan.

2003


April 4: Three women and a child on ground were killed and five persons were injured, four of them seriously, after a Mig-23 fighter crashed in a residential area in Dashmesh Nagar locality in Ludhiana in Punjab.

April 7: A MiG-21 fighter jet crashed into a milk processing plant in Haryana, injuring at least three people.

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