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Another panel set up on MiG crashes
MUMBAI,
MARCH 12.
The Defence Ministry has constituted another experts committee to recommend measures to check the increasing number of MiG-21 crashes.
Talking to reporters after delivering a lecture here this evening, the Defence Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, expressed concern over the crashes of the old fleet of aircraft in the Indian Air Force. On March 8, an officer was killed when a MiG crashed at Bikaner. An earlier committee had suggested measures to reduce the accidents, but that had not happened, he lamented and added another panel had been appointed.
As many as 161 pilots had lost their lives in 321 MiG crashes in the country in the last few years. ``We are trying to make them usable. We will have to improve the standards of training. The accidents are bad. When it snuffs out lives of young IAF personnel it is much more,'' he said. — UNI, PTI
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