{"id":167130,"date":"2025-02-06T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=167130"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:29:40","slug":"iaf-mirage-2000-fighter-jet-crashes-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/06\/iaf-mirage-2000-fighter-jet-crashes-in-madhya-pradesh.html","title":{"rendered":"IAF Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashes in Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167131 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/meraj-crashes.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/meraj-crashes.webp 773w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/meraj-crashes-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/meraj-crashes-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/meraj-crashes-390x220.webp 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/>Bhopal: A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh during a routine training mission today.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, both the pilots managed to eject safely before the aircraft went down.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Defence officials confirmed that the IAF has initiated a Court of Inquiry to determine the cause of the crash. The wreckage was found engulfed in flames, with thick smoke rising from the debris. The Mirage 2000, developed by France&#8217;s Dassault Aviation, first took to the skies in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The crash comes on the heels of a similar incident in November 2024, when a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed near Agra due to a technical malfunction, though the pilot ejected safely in that case as well. Several other Mirage aircrafts have crashed in the past, reinforcing their reputation as &#8220;flying coffins&#8221; due to their outdated and deteriorating condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhopal: A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh during a routine training mission today. According to Kashmir Media Service, both the pilots managed to eject safely before the aircraft went down. Indian Defence officials confirmed that the IAF has initiated a Court of Inquiry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IAF Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashes in Madhya Pradesh &#062; Kashmir Media Service<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/06\/iaf-mirage-2000-fighter-jet-crashes-in-madhya-pradesh.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IAF Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashes in Madhya Pradesh &#062; Kashmir Media Service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bhopal: A twin-seater Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh during a routine training mission today. 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