In Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, on Tuesday, an Indian Air Force aircraft had an accident. When conducting an operational training sortie, the Indian Air Force’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas crashed close to Jaisalmer. It is safe for the pilot to exit.
“One Tejas aircraft of the Indian Air Force met with an accident at Jaisalmer, today during an operational training sortie,” the Indian Air Force stated in a statement in response to the incident. The pilot made a safe ejection. A Court of Inquiry has been established in order to determine the accident’s cause.
Since the domestic jet’s initial flight 23 years ago, this latest disaster represents the first incident involving it. At the center of this accident is the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, an indigenously built supersonic aircraft used by the Indian military. The program known as Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) was started by the Indian government in 1984, and it resulted in the creation of the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) to supervise its development. The design and development of the LCA Tejas was led by India’s own aerospace corporation, HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited). Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee officially renamed the program “Tejas” in 2003. The word “radiance” in Sanskrit means “light.” This is HAL’s second supersonic fighter plane (the first being the HAL HF-24 Marut).
An Indian Air Force Hawk trainer plane had an incident earlier this month while on a training flight over West Bengal. The aircraft went down close to the Kalaikunda Air Force Station in a residential neighborhood. But no civilian property was damaged, and no lives were lost. The pilots both made a safe ejection.