CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -13 people were onboard the plane, including eight crew members and five passengers. The Antonov An-32 took off from Assam’s Jorhat at 12:25 pm.

Detailed explanation-2: -The two pilots were killed when their twin-seater MiG-21 aircraft crashed during a training sortie near Barmer, Rajasthan. The two Indian Air Force pilots killed in Thursday night’s crash of a MiG-21 trainer aircraft in Rajasthan are Wing Commander M. Rana and Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal.

Detailed explanation-3: -In all, there have been a total of 292 MiG-21 accidents, with the first reported in 1963, according to defence blog Bharat Rakshak.

Detailed explanation-4: -A history of MiG-21 in India As India was getting ready to scale up its military capabilities after losing to China in the 1962 Sino-India war and facing rising pressures from Pakistan, MiG-21 was acquired by the country in 1963. Over the next 25 years, IAF inducted 874 MiG-21s.

Detailed explanation-5: -The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) carrying around 200 Indian nationals from war-torn Ukraine arrived at its home base in Hindon Air Force Station near Delhi on March 03, under Operation Ganga.