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MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashes

Updated on: 15 May,2009 12:07 PM IST  | 
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A MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashed in a village in Jodhpur, injuring six labourers and a child on the ground

MIG-27 fighter aircraft crashes

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.



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