(This story originally appeared in on Mar 17, 2021)In yet another crash in the IAF, a senior experienced pilot was killed when his MiG-21 `Bison’ fighter went down soon after taking off from the Gwalior airbase on Wednesday morning, once again underlining the urgent need to phase out these ageing fighters.
Group Captain Ashish Gupta, who was posted at IAF’s `Top-Gun’ school Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment (TACDE) at Gwalior, had taken off in his MiG-21 for a “combat training mission” when the accident took place at about 10.50 am. He was slated to take over as the commanding officer of a MiG-21 squadron in Rajasthan.
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Updated Mar 17, 2021, 4:01 pm IST
A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India
IAF
New Delhi: A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India on Wednesday, the IAF said.
The accident took place when the aircraft was taking off for a combat training mission, the IAF said on Twitter.
IAF tweet
It said Group Captain A Gupta was killed in the accident. A court of inquiry has been ordered to determine the cause of the accident.