A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on a routine mission crashed on Friday after going airborne from Nal near Rajasthan’s Bikaner.
Initial inputs suggest the plane crashed after it suffered a bird hit.
The pilot of the warplane is safe as he ejected in time before the crash.
A court of inquiry will investigate the cause of the accident.
The fighter jet hogged the limelight after it crashed on the other side of the border when Indian and Pakistani fighter jets engaged in an aerial combat on February 27.
Earlier in July last year, a MiG-21 fighter jet of the IAF crashed in a village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, killing an Indian Air Force pilot.
On June 5, an IAF Jaguar fighter jet had crashed in Kutch in Gujarat soon after takeoff, killing the pilot.
On May 27, an IAF pilot was killed when his MiG-21 fighter crashed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district.