Thirty aircraft and helicopters crashed during the last three years in various operations and total loss was over Rs1,161.50 crore in terms of value. Giving this information in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in a written reply the main reasons for these accidents were human error and technical defect.
The ill-fated aircraft included three SU-30s, two Mirage-2000, four Jaguars, three MIG-29s, nine MIG-21s, one C-130J transport plane, one AN-32 transport plane, one Hawk advanced jet trainer, two Kiran trainer aircraft, two MI-17 helicopters and one advanced light helicopters.