IAF MIG-29 Crashes!

[Myth_buster_1]

IAF MIg-29 crashes pilot safe, 5th advance jet crash

Jamnagar, Sep 1 (PTI) A MiG-29 jet fighter of the Indian Air Force crashed in the Arabian Sea off Jamnagar coast during a training mission around noon today but the pilot ejected safely.
Flight Lieutenant Dheer, was rescued after he bailed out of the aircraft which crashed at 1153 hours, an IAF spokesman said in New Delhi.

The IAF's all-weather air superiority aircraft was on a one-on-one training sortie when the pilot lost control of the MiG-29 which crashed in the sea about 50 km off Jamnagar, he said.

Naval divers from the INS Valsura base are being pressed into service to fish out the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder (black-box), the spokesman said.

The MiG-29 belonged to the IAF's 28 Squadron and it had taken off from Jamnagar for the training exercise.

This is the sixth aircrash being suffered by the IAF this year and the fifth MiG-29 to crash since June 2006.

The earlier five crashes involved a MiG-27, two MiG-21s, a Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer and a Kiran trainer this year. A pilot was killed in one of the crashes.

In January this year, a MiG-27 crashed near Hashimara in North Bengal, followed by a MiG-21 crash near Bhuj in Gujarat in February.

In April, a Hawk trainer crashed at Bidar, Karnataka and in May, a Kiran trainer crashed at Dindigul near Hyderabad killing a lady trainee pilot.

In the fifth incident, also in May, a MiG-21 from Bagdogra air base crashed. PTI

 

[Imran Khan]

ok so how many more

 

[Myth_buster_1]

Jamnagar counts: It’s third MiG-29 to crash in three years

Rajkot, September 01 A MIG-29 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in the Gulf of Kutch some 50 kilometres off the Jamnagar coast on Monday.

Defence PRO Satish Menon said the incident occurred at 11 am. The aircraft was on a regular combat exercise. He said the pilot, Flight Lieutenant S Dhir, successfully managed to bail out just before the crash.

“An IAF chopper was immediately sent to rescue the pilot. He was brought to the Jamnagar Air Base, where he was provided with medical aid and sent to the IAF Hospital for treatment,” said Menon. He said the pilot is now out of danger. He added a Case of Inquiry will be set up to establish the cause of the crash. An IAF team is trying to locate the wreckage from the Arabian Sea, he said.

A Defence spokesperson in New Delhi said that navy divers from the INS Valsura Base are being pressed into service to fish out the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder (black box) from the waters.

This is the third MIG-29 fighter jet to have crashed near Jamnagar in the last three years. The previous crashes took place in 2006. Menon, however, said: “I don’t know about the previous figures. I think this is the first MIG-29 crash.”

 

[su-47]

Shows how antiquated IAF is becoming. we better fast-track MiG-29 upgrades. Old airframes are the reason for most of these crashes.

 

[IceCold]

Shows how antiquated IAF is becoming. we better fast-track MiG-29 upgrades. Old airframes are the reason for most of these crashes.

I dont think so that IAF has become antiquated. Infact all loses that the IAF faced is within limits when compared to any modern day airforce of the world. Its a machine and anything can go wrong or perhaps with the pilots slightest error, a jet can crash.

 

[PakShaheen79]

Good news is pilot is safe.