Two people were killed in western India on Monday after a Russian-made Indian military aircraft, the MiG-21, crashed into the home where they lived, police said.
“The pilot was safely rescued. The MiG crashed into a house, two people were killed, three people were injured,” police chief Sudhir Chaudhary told AFP after the crash in Rajasthan state.
Russian-built MiG-21s first entered service in India in the 1960s and for many years formed the backbone of the country’s air force. Numerous accidents earned the planes the nickname “flying coffins”.
Last week, an army helicopter with three people on board crashed in Jammu and Kashmir. Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed in January — one pilot was killed and two others injured — in an apparent mid-air collision during exercises south of the capital New Delhi.
With AFP
Source: DN
