An Indian Tejas fighter jet crashed during an aerial display at the Dubai Air Show
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Raj-Hindustani
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If you understand the nature of aerobatic shows, you’ll know they involve extremely high-risk manoeuvres where even a very small mistake can lead to an incident. I’m referring to earlier cases as well, such as the one where two aircraft collided during a display.
And another way I say - even comercial aircrafts had accidents during the live shows, fighter planes - there are many!
They fly very close to the ground for showcasing and a minor mistakes or failure, do not provide opportunities to recover, and pilot ends with suffer
Air show is a high risk game as always
Yasser76
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Yes, PAF has been doing air shows like many countries have. IAF have a serious safety culture issue. Shopping bags for oil leaks, FFS
this is a bit of a moot point where there is no comparison
the JF-17 had racked up 40,000 OPERATIONAL hours (so combat/mission hours)- by 2019, so the flight hour number is likely far greater. This was of course over the span of 9 years, so included ioc, plus the trickling of airframes in, now, with another 6 years under its belt, the real total flight hours are probably exceeding 100,000 with a significantly higher number of airframes.
In this time period, of 40,000 OPERATIONAL hours, 2 airframes were lost.
That meant, up til 2019, JF-17 had a crash rate of 1 airframe for every 20,000 hours.
However, for the sake of it, lets extend this 40,000 to 2025, if we include the 3 new crashes, so 5 total, across 40,000 operational hours (obviously inaccurate), the crash rate is 1 crash for every 8000 hours.
Obviously induction/use do not scale linearly, but im estimating the real crash rate of the JF-17 sits around 1 crash for every 15,000-20,000 hours.
With Teju bhaiya, 12,000 hours, 2 crashes, 1 every 6000 hours, but also, 38 airframes, with a loss of 2, 5.2% of the fleet lost.
With Jeff babu, 225 airframes, 5 losses, giving a 2.2% fleet loss. Noteworthy is all hull losses have been training flights/CFIT, with no fatal failures thus far.
So yes, you can say Tejas has less crashes and a few JF-17 have crashed, but it does not tell the story or even scratch the surface.
which is why there are very strict procedures in place to prevent such incidents
ARMalik
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The ones expressing sorrow are a bunch of weak individuals.
Raj-Hindustani
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If it's about pilots skills - su 30 mki has many incidents now.... But it is having one of the best records with thousands of flying hours.
Again, people don't understand things- mostly preminded.
did i say anything about pilot skills?
the entire world counts incidents per flight hours...
Yasser76
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Nope, MKI servicability is at 55%. So there will not be that many flying hours. Worth remembering you are on a defence forum where yiu can get fact checked, not posting on X to their fellow ignorant Indians
hasssanali8998
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Dalit
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You are a joke just like your pathetic fighter Tejas.
Raj-Hindustani
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So this should be considered an operational accident? Because as I understand where flying hours and the nature of the manoeuvres play a major role. If it was a technical failure, that’s still possible—but
based on what we can see, it appears that a minor mistake led to the incident. He was flying very close to the ground, and we’ve seen similar accidents in the past under such conditions.
Yasser76
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I think people do not realise how bad the situation is for them right now.
Over last 3 years they have lost 23 aircraft to attrition. They have lost 8 (possibly more) to combat and they have retired 40 MIG-21s.
That is a total of 71 airplanes (old and modern) without a single new fighter being delivered. Effectively the los of 4 Fighter squadrons in 3 years.
have you personally concluded a crash investigation?
you can label it whatever accident you want, the bottom line is tejas has crashed and it is more devastating for a tejas fleet to lose one aircraft than it is a jf17 fleet.
also, it appears to be more of a chain of failures, as opposed to one mistake...
and before you try to be a smart arse- im aerobatics rated
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