27th May CNN reporting on MiG Kills

[Windjammer]

Didn't we also shoot down a Mirage? Or did that one just crash?

Not sure about any Mirage crash but around the same period (August 1999), two IAF MiG-21s being scrambled were lost in a comical mix up.

18th August 1999

Indian A. F. MiG-21Bis Srinagar AFB Take Off from Srinagar AFB No.2 in a two aircraft take off. Pilot was too close to No.1 and lost control in the slipstream and crashed after take off. ATC called out for him to eject. No1 in the formation responded to the wrong call and ejected Flying Officer G S Dhindsar
18th August 1999

Indian A. F. MiG-21Bis Srinagar AFB. Take Off from Srinagar AFB No.1 in a two aircraft take off. Responded to a misguided 'Eject' Call given by the ATC to Flying Officer Dhindsar who was the No.2 Flight Lieutenant K S Deswal

 

[Raider 21]

Not sure about any Mirage crash but around the same period (August 1999), two IAF MiG-21s being scrambled were lost in a comical mix up.

18th August 1999

Indian A. F. MiG-21Bis Srinagar AFB Take Off from Srinagar AFB No.2 in a two aircraft take off. Pilot was too close to No.1 and lost control in the slipstream and crashed after take off. ATC called out for him to eject. No1 in the formation responded to the wrong call and ejected Flying Officer G S Dhindsar
18th August 1999

Indian A. F. MiG-21Bis Srinagar AFB. Take Off from Srinagar AFB No.1 in a two aircraft take off. Responded to a misguided 'Eject' Call given by the ATC to Flying Officer Dhindsar who was the No.2 Flight Lieutenant K S Deswal

Nothing comical. They were just doing their job....and accidents can happen.

 

[Windjammer]

Nothing comical. They were just doing their job....and accidents can happen.

Please stop defending in every thread, the pilots were doing their job however only if the ATC had called out No 1 or No 2 in the formation rather than just shouting eject...eject...eject.

@Knuckles ,
This is how the incident actually happened.

In August 1999, the India / Pakistan hostilities were at a peak, a PN Atlantique aircraft had been shot down by India and the tension on the borders was at knife edge. There were constant air patrols, each side was monitoring the other around the clock resulting in aircraft being constantly scrambled. One of these resulted in two IAF MiG-21s being scrambled from an airfield in Indian occupied Kashmir, in the heat of the moment, while baring down the runway, No 2 MiG got caught in the leaders slipstream and began losing control and it's pilot proceeded to eject, the Indian air controller watching in horror panicked and gave the call for eject without referring to No2, the MiG leader who was by this time airborne assumed that the call is for him so he also promptly proceed to eject.
Whether an air violation by the PAF materialised on that day or not but it certainly caused the IAF the loss of two aircraft.

 

[Raider 21]

Please stop defending in every thread

What do you mean by that ??

 

[Windjammer]

What do you mean by that ??

Well my friend, the Indians have often called, the strafing of a PN ship in error by PAF during 1971 war as the best hit.

 

[Fledgingwings]

 

[Raider 21]

Well my friend, the Indians have often called, the strafing of a PN ship in error by PAF during 1971 war as the best hit.

I see.