On 3 May 2002, an Indian Air Force (IAF) Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis crashed into an office building in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, killing eight and injuring 17 people on the ground.

[1] The aircraft, piloted by Flt Lt SK Nayak, had taken off from Adampur Air Force base about 10:00am, five minutes prior to the crash.

[1] The aircraft crashed into the Jalandhar branch of the Bank of Rajasthan, located in a heavily populated residential and commercial section of the city.

[1] The first firefighting units to respond could not find water sources with which to fight the blaze, which was not attacked until Indian Army trucks with foam arrived on scene.

"[6] The age of the MiG-21s, and their safety record, led the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to call for their immediate phase-out in a March, 2002 report, and this crash added urgency to that recommendation.