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| Date: | Thursday 4 April 2002 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Air Force - IAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Jhelu-Gagari village, Jodhpur -
 India
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Jodhpur AFS (VIJO) |
Crashed. S/L Prashant Kumar Bundela suffered serious injuries during ejection and died more than two month later. IAF lost 102 MiG-21 and 39 pilots from 1 April 1992-31 March 2002.
Sources:
Scramble 276
Air Forces Monthly June/August 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/20171020043724/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/Aircraft_by_Type/INDIA/mig_21_india.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Dec-2012 07:59 | harro | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Feb-2017 09:29 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, ] |
| 08-Feb-2019 14:25 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 03-Dec-2019 16:10 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 09-Dec-2019 14:04 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 10-Dec-2019 19:19 | TB | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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