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| Date: | Wednesday 4 July 2001 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  MiG-29 |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Air Force - IAF |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Hoshiarpur -
 India
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Adampur AFS (VIAX)/223 Sqn |
| Adampur AFS (VIAX) |
Crashed in a flooded maize field between villages of Ajnoha and Todarpur after catching fire while on a routine training flight. Pilot Squadron Leader Sandeep Mehra was killed.
Sources:
Scramble 267
AFM September 2001, p70
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jan-2009 11:55 | ASN archive | Added |
| 15-Oct-2019 17:32 | TB | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Mar-2020 09:48 | JF | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Apr-2020 20:11 | AlLach | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 14-May-2021 08:25 | TB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, ] |
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