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He was secured by the air force officials and was rushed to the hospital. The pilot in this incident had also ejected safely after trying hard to turn it away from a populated area. JODHPUR: An ageing MiG-27 upgrade fighter aircraft crashed in an agricultural field near village Jaleli Fauzdar in Banar police station area, here on Tuesday morning. According to an estimate, the Indian air force has lost a dozen MiG-27 aircraft, in past one decade, on account of technical defects.Though, the MiG-27 are slated to be phased out from operation, two squadrons of this ageing plane are operational at Jodhpur Air Force Station. They said that by the time the pilot turned the plane directing it to a deserted place, it had come too low, but the pilot waited and jumped out after turning it away from the inhabited area.“We saw two planes flying over our village..