Two dead after MiG jet flies into Indian house‘FLYING COFFINS’: Russian-made MiG jets first entered Indian service in the 1960s, but questions about their safety record has risen following numerous crashesAFP, NEW DELHITwo people on the ground died after a Russian-made MiG-21 military aircraft crashed onto a house in India yesterday, police said. The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed the crash and that the pilot ejected. Photo :AFP“A MiG-21 aircraft of the IAF crashed near Suratgarh during a routine training sortie today morning,” the IAF wrote on Twitter. That crash was the sixth MiG-21 aircraft to have gone down since January 2021, with five pilots killed. Russian-made MiG-21 jets first entered Indian service in the 1960s and for decades served as the backbone of the nation’s air force.
