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| Date: | Thursday 11 April 2002 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29B |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Air Force - IAF |
| Registration: | KB3126 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Sirsi, Karnataka -
 India
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Goa NAS (or Adampur)/223 Sqn |
| Karwar AB (or Ojihar) |
Crashed in jungle of Golikoppa and caught fire on a ferry flight. Pilot Flying Officer Prasanta Kumar Mishra was killed.
At an intermediate stop the pilot was informed that the aircraft's oxygen consumtion was abnormally hight. However, he continued with the flight and subsequently passed out due to oxygen staevation, follwing which the aircraft continued to fly on auto pilot until it run out of fuel and crashed. Also reported the aircraft was being flown from Adampur to Ojhar.
Sources:
Scramble 277
AFM July 2002, p72/MAR 2003
bharat-rakshak.com
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 06-Dec-2019 09:24 | TB | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Mar-2020 10:18 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Apr-2020 20:17 | AlLach | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Destination airport, Operator, ] |
| 11-May-2021 14:17 | TB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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