Mig 29K fuel tank drops accidentally, causes fire on runway

Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 29

A minor fire broke out on the runway of the Indian Naval Station, Dega, Visakhapatnam, on Monday when a fuel drop tank of a MIG-29K fighter jet got jettisoned accidentally.
The MIG was taking off on a routine training sortie.

The ground support staff quickly doused the fire. No one was injured and no major damage was suffered by the aircraft or the runway.

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After a fuel tank got detached while taking off on the runway, the pilot was told to jettison the second fuel tank at sea. Due to malfunctioning of the system, this did not happen and when the aircraft was coming back for landing, the second fuel tank jettisoned on its own. It fell in the parking lot of the local CISF base.