An Mig-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed Thursday soon after it took off from an air base in Assam, northeast India, reported the Indo-Asian News Service. However, the two pilots managed to eject safely, the news service quoted Indian officials as saying. The aircraft caught fire after it plunged into a pond near a tea garden in a village in the Dibrugarh district, about 520 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, said the news service. The aircraft was supposed to be on a routine training-flying mission when the accident took place. On May 27, another Indian air force Mig-21 fighter crashed at Jodhpur in the western state of Rajasthan. The pilot managed to eject safely. 