The sad irony of today's fatal MiG-21 crash

The death of Group Captain Ashish Gupta, a seasoned fighter pilot in a MiG-21 Bison fighter crash today over central India has cast an especially dark pall of gloom over the Indian Air Force. 

Two MiG-21 crashes 71 days apart. In one, the Commanding Officer of the squadron survived. In the second, the man who was to replace him as Commanding Officer, didn't. A bitter irony that has emerged in the latest tragedy to hit the Indian Air Force. The death of Group Captain Ashish Gupta, a seasoned fighter pilot, in a MiG-21 Bison fighter crash today over Central India has cast an especially dark pall of gloom over the Indian Air Force. The officer was on a combat training mission, which ended in an emergency he apparently couldn't eject from. While a Court of Inquiry will go into every last detail of what happened, the irony is a deeply tragic one.