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MiG-27 aircraft crashes near Pokhran Range, pilot safe

This is the third such accident involving an IAF jet in the past one month.

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In yet another accident involving an Indian Air Force fighter jet, a MiG-27 on a training mission from Jaisalmer crashed near Pokhran Range on Tuesday evening.

News agency ANI reported that the fighter jet crashed around 1810 hours while on a training mission. The pilot reportedly managed to eject safely.

A Court of Inquiry has been ordered the investigate the cause of the accident.

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This is the third such accident involving an IAF jet in the past one month. On January 28, a Jaguar plane had crashed into a farm and burst into flames in UP's Kushinagar. The pilot of the jet, which had taken off from the Gorakhpur air base, had managed to eject safely.

On February 1, a Mirage 2000 trainer fighter aircraft crashed at Yemlur Airport in Bengaluru. Both test pilots died in the incident.

In September last year, a MiG-27 fighter jet had crashed near Jodhpur after the pilots had managed to eject safely. 

The MiG-27 was originally built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union but is now produced in India by Hindustan Aeronautics as the Bahadur ("Valiant"). Though this aircraft is based on the MiG-23 fighter aircraft, it is optimized for air-to-ground attack. The MiG-27 is currently used by Indian, Kazakh and Sri Lankan Air Forces in the ground attack role.

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