Indian Air Force jet crashes

[Owais]

Indian Air Force jet crashes


NEW DELHI (updated on: January 25, 2007, 00:18 PST): An Indian Air Force Mirage-2000 jet crashed on Wednesday but the fate of the pilot was not known, an air force spokesman said.

"The crash took place late evening. We are still waiting for more information," wing commander Mahesh Upasani told AFP.

The aircraft crashed in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

The plane crashed on a farm and there were no civilian casualties, the Press Trust of India reported.

India's ageing air force fleet has been plagued by accidents, particularly Russian-made MiG-21s, but crashes involving Mirages have been rare.

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[Adux]

Quite sad, good piece of equipment ...and i hope the pilot is safe

 

[Bull]

Mirage this week and i guess last week we lost another Jaguar.

 

[Contrarian]

what the f*uck happened?
The Mirages are not that old? Why do they damn crash. First the Jaguars, then Mirage, next thing we see, Su's have started to plummet.

 

[Neo]

Could be anything, engine failure, birdstrike, human error...wait for the official report.
Any news on the pilot yet?

 

[Muradk]

Old or New has got nothing to do with the crash there are countless possiblilities like Neo said. Murphy's Law.

The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"
(or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time," or, "Anything that can go wrong, will").

 

[melb4aust]

Old or New has got nothing to do with the crash there are countless possiblilities like Neo said. Murphy's Law.

The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"
(or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time," or, "Anything that can go wrong, will").

A very hard theory to understand......
and if you understand then to believe.....:stupid:

Plzzz pardon me to make such a funny mere statement,

Do they teach these law's and theories during the airforce training as well, recently i am going through alot of such stuff in my studies which does'nt make alot of sense and was giving me a hard time as ur brain some times give up to understand such things and i was cursing all those people who wrote all those theories and laws

 

[Adux]

A very hard theory to understand......
and if you understand then to believe.....:stupid:

Plzzz pardon me to make such a funny mere statement,

Do they teach these law's and theories during the airforce training as well, recently i am going through alot of such stuff in my studies which does'nt make alot of sense and was giving me a hard time as ur brain some times give up to understand such things and i was cursing all those people who wrote all those theories and laws

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[blain2]

what the f*uck happened?
The Mirages are not that old? Why do they damn crash. First the Jaguars, then Mirage, next thing we see, Su's have started to plummet.

You know what I wonder about is the # of fatalities in the IAF due to the crashes. For some reason I see a lot of pilots dying unfortunately which makes me wonder about the ejection seats in the IAF aircraft (are they mostly MB 0/0s on the IAF M2Ks?)..I think the MB 0/0 ejection seats have really been life savers in the PAF. We have lost some too however I think I see more fatalities in the IAF crashes than in the PAF ones (we have had a few crashes in the recent past well but I think fortunately all the pilots have survived in the past year except one I think).

 

[Contrarian]

Mate, pilots die in rare cases, like in the Jag crash, the plane exploded in mid air with the bomb being live and ready to be dropped. So prolly the bomb exploded and thus pilot had no chance to eject.

Or there was this one case in which the pilot could have ejected but didnt, cuz the plane was going straight down to a village, so he steered it away from the village, and died himself.

Other than such exceptional cases, pilots do get out.

 

[blain2]

Mate, pilots die in rare cases, like in the Jag crash, the plane exploded in mid air with the bomb being live and ready to be dropped. So prolly the bomb exploded and thus pilot had no chance to eject.

Or there was this one case in which the pilot could have ejected but didnt, cuz the plane was going straight down to a village, so he steered it away from the village, and died himself.

Other than such exceptional cases, pilots do get out.

Mate I understand the usual circumstances around pilots losing their lives in crashes. However I also keep a pretty close eye on the attrition on both sides. If possible, go through the reports of crashes on both sides and you will see that IAF has had a greater number of fatalities in air crashes. I am simply wondering about the possibility of problem being attributed to ejection seats.

 

[Contrarian]

Mate I understand the usual circumstances around pilots losing their lives in crashes. However I also keep a pretty close eye on the attrition on both sides. If possible, go through the reports of crashes on both sides and you will see that IAF has had a greater number of fatalities in air crashes. I am simply wondering about the possibility of problem being attributed to ejection seats.

I agree, but i think fatalities are not that high when compared b/w PAF and IAF as compared to aircraft crashes in which i think IAF wants to make a world record and get accredited by the Guiness Book.