A MiG-27 of the Indian Air Force
(IAF) has crashed in Rajasthan's Barmer today, and a part of it fell on a bike
rider. The rider suffered few minor injuries and a broken hand, but his bike
was entirely charred.
The name of the bike rider who
got injured in the incident is Loon Singh. He was going to a village to
distribute marriage invitation when the MiG-27 crashed around 3PM.
The Indian Air Force says that
the pilot was able to press the eject button in time near a village 4KM from
Barmer. The crashed jet was on a routine outing from Jodhpur air base to
Uttarlai. The IAF has ordered a court case for the incident.
It should be noted that the MiG
has a dark crash history. The Soviet-era fighter jet is around 40 years old,
and apart from India, the MiG is used only by Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan. Russia
has stopped using it long ago.
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