Indian Air Force MiG-29 Shot down

A third Indian Air Force crash site of 7 May 2025 was identified by The Washington Post at Akhnoor, in Indian-administered Kashmir, during Operation Sindoor. The newspaper's visual experts could not conclusively determine the type from the available imagery; subsequent reporting indicated the wreckage was likely a MiG-29. Pakistan claimed to have shot down several Indian jets that night. India's Chief of Defence Staff told Bloomberg in May that aircraft had been lost, without giving a number or the types. The French air force chief's later account, reported by Al Jazeera, listed a Rafale, a Sukhoi and a Mirage 2000 and did not mention a MiG-29.