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Air Force MiG 21 Crashes in Kashmir

2007-05-22 A MIG-21 fighter plane has crashed in the hills of Mahore in Jammu and Kashmir.

'Times of India' Reports - According to defence sources, the fighter took off from Udhampur airbase Tuesday morning on a routine training sortie.

However, the plane lost contact with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) when it was flying over Basantgarh-Mahore mountains.

The aircraft is feared to have crashed and search is on to locate the wreckage and the missing pilots.

The fate of the pilot is unknown as further details are awaited.

MiG 21's in the IAF
The Indian Air Force has been one of the largest users of the MiG-21 since its initial employment of the plane in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 with good results. That war also witnessed the first supersonic air combat in the subcontinent when an Indian MiG-21 shot down a PAF F-104 Starfighter.

The MiGs played an important role in air combat, ensuring an aerial superiority that ultimately resulted in Pakistan's defeat in just a fortnight. It was also used as late as 1999 in the Kargil War, with mixed results.

The MiG-21's last known kill took place in 1999 during the Atlantique Incident when two MiG-21 aircraft of the Indian Air Force shot down a Breguet Atlantique reconnaissance aircraft of the Pakistani Navy, loitering over Indian airspace.

Upgraded MiG-21 'Bison' aircraft reportedly performed well against F-15 and F-16s of the USAF during Indo-US joint air exercises, surprising American pilots with its capabilities

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