Friday, May 15, 2009

MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashes near Jodhpur, 7 injured

MiG-27 FloggerA MiG-27 fighter aircraft crashed in a village in this district on Friday, injuring six labourers and a child on the ground.

The MiG-27 pilot, a squadron leader, ejected out of the cockpit safely just before the aircraft crashed between 8.10 hours and 8.20 hours in Konkani village in Luni, about kms from here, while on a routine sortie, Defence PRO Lt Col N N Joshi said.

The plane crashed soon after take off into an under construction house in a field in a small hamlet in Salawas village of Luni, he said.

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