The Wednesday’s incident of the Indian Air Force’s MiG-21 Bison fighter has once again pr0voked angry calls for retiring the country’s once frontline workhorse, which has served India for over 50 years.
The I A F has operated about 872 MiG-21 fighters since the time they were first inducted in the 1960s.
Interestingly, the notion of the MiG-21 being a ‘flying coffin’ does not hold water. Surprisingly, after doing a thorough statistical analysis of the IAF’s history, the MiG-21 turns out to be the safest machine in its inventory. In fact, if one looks at the attrition rates of the IAF aircraft since the 1960s, the MiG-21 comes at the bottom.
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