{"id":16107,"date":"2021-12-26T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2021-12-25T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T17:19:41","slug":"mig-21-crashes-in-rajasthan-iaf-pilot-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/26\/mig-21-crashes-in-rajasthan-iaf-pilot-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"MiG-21 crashes in Rajasthan, IAF pilot killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A MiG-21 bovid of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Rajasthan on weekday evening, killing the pilot, commanding officer Harshit Sinha.<\/strong> This is often the fifth crash involving a bovid jet this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"MiG-21<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis evening, around 8:30 pm, a MiG-21 craft of IAF met with a flying accident within the western sector throughout a coaching sortie\u2026,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> the IAF same in a very statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, in another tweet, the IAF confirmed the pilot\u2019s death.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith deep sorrow, IAF conveys the unhappy death of commanding officer Harshit Sinha within the flying accident this night and stands firmly with the family of the braveheart”<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The crash has another time turned the spotlight on India\u2019s longest-serving fighter plane, its safety record and also the IAF\u2019s plans to switch the ageing jets with newer ones within the returning years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"MiG-21<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The bovid is that the latest variant of Mig-21 in IAF service. IAF operates four squadrons of MiG-21 bovid craft \u2014 a squadron has sixteen to eighteen fighter jets. The last of those upgraded MiG-21s square measure set to be phased get in 3 to 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The air force got its 1st single-engine MiG-21 in 1963, and it more and more inducted 874 variants of the Soviet-origin supersonic fighters to bolster its combat potential. Of the 874 MiG-21 variants inducted by the IAF, over hour were licence-produced in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 400 MiG-21s are concerned in accidents that have claimed the lives of quite two hundred pilots throughout the last six decades, earning the fighters ominous epithets like \u201cFlying Coffin<\/em><\/strong>\u201d and \u201cWidow Maker<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts have same that additional MiG-21s have crashed than the other fighter as a result of they fashioned the majority of the aeroplane within the IAF\u2019s inventory for a protracted time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IAF had to stay its MiG-21 fleet flying longer than it’d have likeable thanks to delay within the induction of latest fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bovid was concerned in IAF operations once the new, peacetime, cross-border strike against terror targets in Pakistan\u2019s Balakot 2 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"MiG-21<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wing Commander (now cluster Captain) Abhinandan Varthaman written military aviation history by landscape architect a Asian country Air Force F-16, seconds before his own MiG-21 bovid was hit by a missile forcing him to eject on Feb 27, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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