MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashes near Jodhpur,7 injured

A MIG-27 fighter aircraft on a routine sortie crashed in a village near Jodhpur,injuring seven persons on the ground.

A MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashed in a village in this district on Friday,injuring six labourers and a child on the ground.

The MiG-27 pilot,a squadron leader,ejected out of the cockpit safely just before the aircraft crashed between 8.10 hours and 8.20 hours in Konkani village in Luni,about kms from here,while on a routine sortie,Defence PRO Lt Col N N Joshi said.

The plane crashed soon after take off into an under construction house in a field in a small hamlet in Salawas village of Luni,he said.

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The Indian Air Force has ordered a probe into the crash,Joshi said.

SP (Rural) Sharat Kaviraj said seven persons including a two year old child have been injured.

This is the second IAF fighter aircraft crash in as many weeks,the previous mishap being that of a sophisticated Su-30MKI air superiority fighter near Jaisalmer on April 30.

This is the fourth IAF aircraft crash in 2009,the first being that of a Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team’s Kiran-MkII crash in Bidar on January 21,followed by an unmanned aerial vehicle crash the same day in Hashimara.

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The last MiG-27 crash had taken place in Hashimara on January 31 last year.

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