ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 57712
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| Date: | Wednesday 17 January 2001 |
| Time: | c. 21:15 |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27ML |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Air Force |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Hashimara -
 India
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hashimara AB, West Bengal |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Crashed during routine night time flight. Struck a school building in Bajrapur village. Fl Lt Srivastava ejected but was seriously injured.
*Note: from April 1997 to March 2000, IAF lost 48 MiG's along with 30 pilots: 17 technical defects, one human error during maintenance, 25 due to pilot error, two bird-strikes. Pilot errors regular caused by disorientation due to permanent haze over country. Also transision from Kiran to MiG-21 which is much more dificult to handle for young and inexperienced pilots. Since March 2000 further 15 MiG's have been lost.
Sources:
Scramble 261
*AFM March 2001, p75
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 19-May-2019 12:36 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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