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MiG-21 in safety spotlight once again
July 20, 2013: The MiG-21, the backbone of the Indian Air Force's fighter fleet, is back in the headlines. Shortly after a young IAF pilot, Flt Lt Shikhar Kulshreshtha, was killed in a crash at Uttarlai, a pilot who survived an earlier MiG-21 accident in 2005, Wg Cdr S.S. Kaila, has petitioned the Delhi High Court, pleading that flights in MiG-21s violate a pilot's fundamental right to life.
The MiG-21 has been caught in legal wrangles before—most notably in the Flt Lt Abhijit Gadgil case—but this is the first time that a court has called upon the MoD and HAL to furnish full details of the aircraft platform, it's performance in the Indian context and accident history. The proceedings could be potentially embarrassing considering that details of manufacturing defects and quality control during the license manufacture in India could also come out. It was recently revealed that as a result of a combination of factors, including delays in the LCA and MMRCA programme, the MiG-21 fleet (just under 200 aircraft currently in IAF service) would be kept operational till 2017 at least, with all the platforms in the Bison upgrade configuration.
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