MiG crashes, pilot ejects

The Indian Airforce lost yet another of its technically upgraded MiG-21 BIS fighters on Tuesday morning when the jet on its final landing approach to the Air Force base at Ambala, evidently lost power and crashed into paddy fields near Rajpura on the Delhi-Amritsar Highway.
The pilot, Flt. Lt. Arunav Ghosh, had a most fortunate escape when he managed to eject precious seconds before his plane hit the ground barely a kilometre away.
Workers at a cardboard factory told the police, the dangerously low flying aircraft suddenly appeared in the sky and seemed to weave around before exploding on impact into a rice field outside Mehmudpur Maujan Village. The crash location is 30 km from Chandigarh.
Farm hands tending crops rushed to the pilot’s assistance even as an IAF search and rescue helicopter arrived to pick him up. IAF officials said he was “unhurt” but nonetheless admitted to the Military Hospital at Ambala Cantonment for observation.
07/09/11 Asit Jolly/Asian Age

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Categories: Safety Sep 2011