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The PAF accident rate for 1997 till Aug 98 is one aircraft per 10000 hours, and is a tribute to the high expertise and dedication of technician, engineers and professional excellence of PAF fighter pilots. This flight safety performance could be favourably compared with the abysmal flight safety record of 2.5 aircraft lost per ten thousand flying hours during 1991 to 1996 the Indian Air Force. On April 30, 1998 Air Chief Marshal SK Sareen, Chief of the Air Staff IAF had expressed concern over IAFs high accident rate from technical causes i.e. poor maintenance, component failures. On June 09, 1998.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of the Govenment of India criticised the IAF for its poor flight safety record and lack of fighter pilot training facilities. Lok Sabah was informed that the IAF had lost 147 aircraft and 63 pilots in 187 accidents and 2729 incidentduring 1991-97 . The accident rate of the fighter stream, particularly Mig-21 variants continues to be very high. Of the 147 aircraft lost in major accidents 41 percent were due to avoidable human error and 44 percent were attributable to technical defects. Mig-21 variants were involved in 62 percent of fighter aircraft accidents. Accidents in the IAF have led to mutiny by fighter pilots of Mig-21 squadrons who refused to fly Mig-21 aircraft built or overhauled indigenously. The IAF Mig-21 is held in contempt by IAF pilots and many call it The flying coffin. Last year there was a widely reported mutiny at all IAF Bases by demoralized officers and men of all branches except some fighter units. The high accident rate of the IAF fighters and low IAF morale in the past should be no consolation for the PAF authorities.
