NEW DELHI: An Air Pressure Tejas fighter jet crashed throughout an aerobatic show on the Dubai Airshow on Friday, killing the pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal. The one-engine Tejas Mark-1 plunged straight into the bottom throughout a low-altitude demonstration, erupting into flames and scattering particles throughout the venue. The plane reportedly didn’t recuperate from a negative-G flip earlier than crashing at round 2.10pm native time at Al Maktoum Worldwide Airport.
Earlier than the present started, a video now broadly circulated on-line captured the ill-fated pilot interacting with defence officers. Syal, a resident of Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district, appeared calm, smilingly assembly officers and ready earlier than the sortie that turned deadly.That is the second crash involving the light-weight, multi-role Tejas fighter—manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics and powered by a GE-F404 turbofan engine—since its induction into the IAF a decade in the past. Within the earlier crash close to Jaisalmer on March 12 final 12 months, the pilot had managed to eject safely whereas getting back from the Bharat Shakti navy train at Pokhran. Wing Commander Syal, an skilled fighter pilot, was not as lucky.