In a strange incident of drunk driving, a Ukrainian Air Force Officer rams his Volkswagen Touran car into a parked MiG-29 fighter jet, causing a fire and destruction of both vehicles and singlehandedly reduced the country’s strength of MiG fighters by 4 percent.

No matter what mistakes you’ve made recently, they probably don’t compare to this Ukrainian captain who rammed a MiG-29 fighter with his Volkswagen Touran while drunk.https://t.co/GCQn5dHBwehttps://t.co/VJ2OeQfumn pic.twitter.com/XwszW5FNWD

— Rob Lee (@RALee85) March 12, 2021

The incident took place on March 10 at an air base near Vasilkov in central Ukraine. The incident occurred when the officer drove the car, was from the 40th Tactical Aviation brigade. The officer was intoxicated and rams his car into MiG-29’s scorched tail fin, rear stabilizer as well as damaged thrust nozzles. The Touran was also damaged as the hood and windshield were smashed. Thankfully, no was seriously injured as the driver reportedly only received minor bruises and admitted to the hospital immediately. The driver is now facing charges and criminal proceedings are being carried out by a group of prosecutors from the military prosecutor’s office.

MiG-29 before crash

According to Ukrainian Air Force, the aircraft shall be most likely decommissioned from service and salvaged for spare parts. The country inherited the jets after collapse of the Soviet union, making them atleast 30 years old. Of those 24 jets, only 16 are frontline fighters, the remaining eight are used as training aircraft. This incident took out 4% of their fleet. The MiG-29 costs between $11-20 million. The MiG, whose number is 08 was apparently serving as a frontline fighter, where you can see a photo of Number 08 before the collision, Ukraine’s Air Force had planned to enter into an agreement last year with Israeli defense contractor Elbit to modernize 11 of the MiGs. The modernization effort was expected to cost $40 million per jet. It’s not clear if Number 08 was one of the those $40 million jets.