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Friday, July 17, 2009

India Will Not Ground MiGs Despite Russian Crash

MiG-29KDespite December's crash of a Russian MiG 29 aircraft, India will not decommission the 67 MiG 29s in the fleet, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said in a written to a reply to the Indian Parliament July 15.

"Russia has pointed out structural faults in MiG-29 aircraft. There was a MiG-29 accident in Russia in December 2008.

RAC-MiG has intimated that corrosion on the fin root ribs has been identified as the cause of crack development. There is no plan to decommission MiG-29 aircraft," said Antony.

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