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MiG Down In India: Three Dead, Eleven Hurt

Growing Scrutiny Focuses On Aging Fleet Of "Flying Coffins"

It has become a tragic routine in India -- the crash of a MiG fighter and the death of a flying officer. It happened again on Friday in Gujarat Province, when a MiG-21 veered off the runway on landing.

"The MiG-21 veered off the runway and hit a water pump house where six workers were present. All were injured, two critically," said an Indian Air Force officer in an interview with the Times of India.

More than 100 Indian fighter pilots -- some barely 20-years old, have lost their lives in MiG accidents over the past decade, according to news reports. The Times reports at least 320 MiG-21 aircraft, most of them built in the 1960s, have been lost in accidents since 1970. Indian pilots have dubbed the MiG-21s "flying coffins."

FMI: www.indianairforce.nic.in

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