Fighter jets crashland over Morena in Madhya Pradesh
An IAF court of inquiry will establish whether the accident happened due to a mid-air collision or not.
An IAF court of inquiry will establish whether the accident happened due to a mid-air collision or not.
The 87th Air Force Day was also marked by aerial displays of newly inducted Apache attack choppers and the heavy-lift twin-rotor transport Chinook helicopter besides other aircraft.
This government has opted to hail every soldier killed in action as a “martyr”, Garima Abrol has advocated a way of making that term more than mere lip-service.
On 1 February, two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) lost their lives when their Mirage-2000 fighter jet crashed on the runway of the Yemalur-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility.
Operation Vayu Shakti involved as many as 138 aircraft of different types including the Airborne Warning And Control System, which also took aerial photographs of the targets destructed by the fighter aircraft and helicopters
"It was necessary to purchase these 36 aircraft as the capabilities of the Indian Air force were depleting. If we keep pulling each other's legs, we will cause a major loss to the defence of the nation," he said.
Squadron Leaders Samir Abrol and Siddharth Negi died of fatal injuries after the aircraft crashed on Friday at the military airport runway near Bengaluru.
The crash took place around 10.30 am on the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited runway in Yemalur
USAF has brought in 12 Eagle - F15 C/D planes and three C-130 aircraft, while the IAF is participating with its Su-30 MKI, Jaguar, Mirage 2000 from its fighter fleet, and C-130J and AWACS aircraft from Panagarh.
Ex Cope India 2018, with its fourth edition in the series of the bilateral joint exercises, has been planned at two Air Force bases — Kalaikunda and Panagarh in West Bengal — from 3-14 December.
