The naval headquarters has ordered a Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the incident.
“A MiG 29K on a routine sortie over sea off Goa developed a technical malfunction while returning to base. The pilot ejected safely and has been recovered in a swift search and rescue operation,” the Navy mentioned in a short assertion.
“The pilot is reported to be in stable condition. The Board of Inquiry (BoI) has been ordered to investigate the cause of the incident,” it mentioned.
The MiG-29K is an all-weather carrier-based multirole fighter aircraft developed by Russian aerospace firm Mikoyan (MiG).
The Indian Navy had procured a fleet of 45 MiG-29Ks from Russia over a decade again at a value of round USD 2 billion (one billion=100 crore) to function from INS Vikramaditya.
In November 2020, a MiG-29K aircraft of the Navy crashed into the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast after taking off from aircraft provider INS Vikramaditya.
A MiG-29K twin-seat fighter aircraft had crashed in South Goa district in November 2019 and both the pilots had ejected safely.
Another MIG-29K crashed into the Arabian Sea off the Goa coast on February 23, 2020 after taking off from INS Hansa, a outstanding naval air station at Vasco in Goa.
The pilot of the plane had managed to eject safely.
