15 May,2009 12:07 PM IST | | Agencies
A MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashed in a village in Jodhpur, 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. The Indian Air Force has ordered a probe into the crash, Joshi said. SP (Rural) Sharat Kaviraj said seven persons including a two-year-old child have been injured.
