
Impressive photo shows Croatian Air Force Mig-21 about to crash following engine failure.
On Aug. 5, 2014, at around 2:47 PM LT, a Croatian Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed “121” crashed in an uninhabited the area at Donja Lomnica near Velika Gorica, Croatia.
According to the Croatian MoD, the aircraft was returning from a mission when it suffered an engine fire as well as a landing gear problem.
Fortunately, the pilot managed to eject safely from the plane.
The MiG-21 lost on Aug. 5, was not one of the 12 Fishbeds overhauled in Ukraine and stuck there until a few weeks ago, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
In this post you can find one of the photos of the incident, published by the Croatian media outlet VGDanas.
Image credit: VGDanas
Some sources say that the same pilot had an incident with different aircraft earlier that day when his extracted landing gear indicator failed and he had to make another run and land with support from the ground personnel.