India’s Indigenous Fighter Mars Safety Record With First Crash

HAL Tejas
Credit: Rohan Paliwal/Alamy Stock Photo
Indian Air Force investigators are probing the March 12 crash of a Tejas light combat aircraft during an operational training sortie—the first such accident since the type’s initial test flight 23 years ago. The pilot ejected safely before the aircraft crashed down near the city of Jaisalmer in...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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