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A MiG-29 fighter jet crashed into a field near Uttar Pradesh's Agra during a routine training sortie following a technical glitch, the Indian Air Force and defence officials said..
"A MiG-29 aircraft of the IAF crashed near Agra during a routine training sortie today, after encountering a system malfunction..
This is not the first time that a MiG-29 fighter jet has crashed and burst into flames...
On September 2, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed in Rajasthans Barmer after it developed a technical snag..
The fighter jet, which was on a training mission from an Air Force base in the Barmer sector, met with a snag and burst into flames soon after it crashed into a field near Uttarlai in Barmer, which was not populated...
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