Two Indian air force pilot killed as another MiG-21 crashes in Rajasthan

NEW DELHI - At least two pilot of the Indian flying corps were killed on Thursday when MiG-21 airplanes crashed in northern India, an assertion from the IAF said.

Wing Commodore Mohit Rana, and Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal had taken off for preparing mission from an airbase in Rajasthan before the team encountered the lethal mishap, said the proclamation.

IAF added that a court of request had been set up to explore and decide the reason for the mishap.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich, otherwise called MIG 21, is a Soviet-period multirole warrior airplane that once shaped the foundation of the Indian flying corps armada anyway a few maturing airplane of this series experienced destructive accidents in the new past.

MIG-21 has an unfortunate security record as the accident was the 6th MiG-21 airplanes to have gone down since January last year, with something like five pilots killed.

Indian aviation based armed forces wanted to resign one of its four excess groups of maturing contender jets in September this year, reports said.

A few helicopters of the Indian armed force likewise experienced lethal accidents since March 2017, guaranteeing in excess of 30 faculty's lives.

Last year, the principal Indian head of guard staff General Bipin Rawat was killed with his better half and different officials in one of the most obviously terrible helicopter crashes as of late.