Iranian Air Force MiG-29 crashes near Azerbaijan

Iranian Air Force lost MiG-29 fighter. The incident occurred near the border with Azerbaijan.
According to Mehr news agency, the fighter was piloted by Colonel Mohammad Reza Rahmani, "an experienced Air Force pilot." At the moment, his fate remains unknown. A number of third-party media claim that the pilot has already made contact with the air base after the accident.

Despite the difficult weather conditions and difficulties in determining the crash site, efforts to find a pilot will be continued by air and ground search and rescue teams

- explain to the military department.

The first reports of the disaster came on Wednesday at 11:00 local time from eyewitnesses of the event who speak of a loud explosion. The plane crashed in the province of Ardabil, located in the north-west of the country, in the region of Mount Sabalan.

In total, the Iranian Air Force has 36 MiG-29s in two squadrons (most likely, a significant part of the vehicles is not combat-ready).
The designated accident was the second disaster that happened in December, in which the MiG-29 appears. At the beginning of this month, the Egyptian Air Force lost a similar fighter. The pilot safely ejected.

Comments

[DMB-2020]

Most likely - he did not crash, but sat down hard. This is not the same thing.

[vkl.47]

It’s difficult to say. We don’t know anything about the car. How long has it been in use. Absolutely everything always falls. Because the born one should not crawl-fly. But the person does not give up in his impulse to subordinate everything. I suspect that the equipment was old.

[Karaul73]

And safely after that catapulted?
Read carefully.

[Piramidon]

Quote: DMB-2020

Most likely - he did not crash, but sat down hard. This is not the same thing.

"Landing" in the mountains, with an explosion?

The first reports of the disaster came on Wednesday at 11:00 local time from eyewitnesses of the event who speak of a loud explosion.

[Alexey from Perm]

Well then, again, image losses for Russia ...

[boss]

the pilot is alive, so the bailout system worked reliably.
do we know the objective reason?

[olhon]

After the black strip, white always comes.

[DMB-2020]

True, if you do not confuse the black strip with white. It often happens that it seems that it cannot be worse. But it turns out - it may well be.

[Brturin]

Quote: DMB-2020

After the black strip, white always comes.

let's see - Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on the arms embargo - "Pacta sunt servanda. Agreements must be implemented. If the participants in the JCPOA, the co-authors of Resolution 2231 agreed at one time that restrictions on the supply of certain categories of weapons and military equipment to the Islamic Republic of Iran under the corresponding seven categories of the UN Register of Conventional Arms. This is the nomenclature whose supplies are currently limited to Iran. There is another side of the so-called arms embargo. This is the inadmissibility of the export of weapons from Iran. Both of them will expire next year due to agreements on the period of validity. This regime is out of the question. We are not ready to follow the lead of our American colleagues every time. "

[letinant]

It is too early to draw conclusions. But the form of this aircraft to see, it would be interesting. Find out the raid by the hours where it was serviced, by whom. Because now, everyone is trying to save and repair themselves. And this is ALWAYS a violation of technology !!!

[bessmertniy]

Do not discount external factors. Maybe a weather surprise. And the human factor, too, cannot be discounted, although it is said that the pilot is experienced.

[letinant]

Totally agree with you.

[knn54]

You can not reset the "bookmarks" in the control system.

[Jack O'Neill]

This MiG made a test flight after overhaul. This narrows the causes of the accident (let's hope that the pilot is alive).
It seems like he dug into the top of the mountain.

Iranian officials say a military plane has crashed in the country northwest. # Iran #PlaneCrash pic.twitter.com/B7TWR0Vmeo

- Press TV (@PressTV) December 25, 2019

# Iran Le pilote du MiG-29 est le Lieutenant Colonel Rahmani, qui serait le commandant du bataillon à la base aérienne de #Tabriz.
L'événement aurait eu lieu durant un vol d'essai après une révision, le pilote se serait éjecté mais serait décédé.#Tehran pic.twitter.com/uInYmybGmY

- Rebecca Rambar (@RebeccaRambar) December 25, 2019

[bayard]

Quote: Jack O'Neill

It seems like he dug into the top of the mountain.

If at the top of the mountain, it looks like a navigation glitch or radar crash.
When the first batch of MiG-29 was distilled to Iran in November-December 1990, there was also an accident. Moreover, a doublet. During a night flight, two MiG-29s (the last pair of 12) crashed into a mountain north of Tehran. Mountains - the landscape is treacherous.
We were surprised by the author's geographical knowledge - "Ardabil in the north-west" ... Actually, this is the north, if not the north-east. Especially if you look from Tehran.

[kit88]

Quote: bayard

... or radar failure.

As experts on REO joke - "Because of the sight, not a single plane has fallen yet"
And other "radars" are not observed on the MiG-29.

[voyaka uh]

These are old planes. Supplies 1990. Part of the MiG-29 went to Iran, when the Iraqi Air Force in 1991 almost completely collapsed from the Americans, flying to Iranian airfields.