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Moscow. August 19. Interfax-AVN - A MiG-29 fighter crashed in the Astrakhan region, the pilot was killed, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.
"The plane crashed in a deserted place on the territory of the Ashuluk training ground. The flight was carried out without ammunition. The pilot was killed," the district said.
The crash of the MiG-29 occurred on August 18 during a scheduled flight, the military reported.
"To establish the causes of the disaster, a commission of the main command of the Aerospace Forces was sent to the crash site," the Southern Military District said.
MiG-29 (NATO codification: Fulcrum) is a 4th generation lightweight fighter developed in the early 1980s. According to RSK MiG, more than 1,600 of these aircraft are in service with the Russian Air Force and 25 countries of the world. More than 800 such aircraft have been exported.
In recent years, there have been more than a dozen crashes of MiG-29 fighters both in Russia and abroad.
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