Indian MIg-27 goes missing.

[P.A.F]

New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) :

An Indian Air Force (IAF) jet went missing Wednesday while on a routine training sortie in an area of West Bengal bordering Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, officials here said.

Authorities on the ground lost radio contact with the MiG-27 jet piloted by Flying Officer Singh barely 15 minutes after it took off at 11.55 a.m. from Hashimara airbase in north Bengal, IAF spokesman Squadron Leader Mahesh Upasani told IANS.

The jet was on its way to nearby Bagdogra airbase. "Radio contact with the jet was lost at about 12.09 p.m. when it was just short of the Bagdogra base," Upasani said.

"Authorities in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan too have been alerted about the jet going missing as it was flying in the chicken neck area," he said, referring to a narrow corridor in West Bengal that shares boundaries with the three countries.

The IAF launched a search using helicopters for the missing jet, but it had to be suspended due to bad weather in the region, Upasani said.

The force has lost seven jets in accidents this year, including four Jaguars and three MiG-series aircraft.


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It's about time india starts to retire some of these migs and jaguars.

 

[adsH]

hey how old are indian jag's i thought they were new

 

[Pathfinder-X]

maybe the jet got abdutcted by aliens!!!

no im sure it crahsed somewhere in the mountains.

 

[P.A.F]

hey aDsH. the jaguars are quite old now. don't know how old but the HAL have been licenced to make them. india builds it's own spare parts for them. thats why there still running.
anyways one of them crashed in Panjab in india shortly after take-off and two collided with eachother in IHK indian held kashmir. it just shows of how crap the indian pilots are. both pilots died.

 

[lamdacore]

they say that the search operation was suspended due to bad weather and perhaps this same bad weather caused that mig to go down.

yeah maybe :alian2 's took it!!

 

[P.A.F]

could be coz of bad weather.

 

[adsH]

About the JAG they are fine piece of Aircrafts its the pilot in them that probably can't handle such AC,or it could simply be the Indin spare-parts or the engineers are too layed back!!

 

[mysterious]

Apparently the 66 Hawk advanced jet-trainers signed for by the IAF are the result of these crashes which occur mostly due to malfunction of systems and low quality pilot training (I read an article of how IAF pilots are thrusted to fly Mig-21s - a particularly difficult aircraft for newbies after they have just flown basic jet trainers)!!! Hopefully the Hawks will improve the IAF pilot training and bring it to new standards, but currently nothing can be done as the Hawks are more than 2 yrs away from delivery. Thats why we can see 70 Mig-21s going out of service! :smokingc: