The fuel tank of an indigenous LCA Tejas combat aircraft fell during a training sortie by the Indian Air Force near Sulur air base in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday morning. "Today morning at around 0840h, one fuel drop tank fell off from a Tejas aircraft on a routine sortie from Sulur Air Base near Coimbatore. This is the probably the first reported incident involving an LCA Tejas aircraft ever since it was inducted into the Indian Air Force. This is the second incident in last week where an IAF fighter plane has had to jettison its fuel tank. The Tejas LCA is a supersonic, single-seat, single-engine multirole light fighter jet that has been under development since 1983 by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Source: dna July 02, 2019 08:34 UTC