New Delhi: A MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed near the Jamnagar airbase in Gujarat on Tuesday evening.
The aircraft was on a routine night-flying sortie when it crashed shortly after take-off. The pilot ejected safely.
This is IAF's fifth fighter crash of the year so far. All five crashes involved the MiG series of aircraft. And perhaps for the first time since their induction in the mid-1980s, the crash tally of the MiG-29 is higher than the older MiG-21 by a 3-2 ratio.
Incidentally, three of the five crashes involved the Jamnagar airbase.
The pilot has been admitted to the Jamnagar Civil Hospital with groin injuries. The pilot, Flt Lt Krishna Kant, was rescued by an Air Force search party that had reached the site soon after the crash.
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