An Indian Tejas fighter jet crashed during an aerial display at the Dubai Air Show

[Master Chief]

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"Oh my God, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage"

 

[Khanivore]

LCA - Flying Rickshaw: Record of Crashes

No.​	Date​	Block​	Serial Number​	Crash Site​
01​	12 March 2024	Mark-1A​	LA-5020​	Lakshmi Chand Sanwal Colony, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
02​	21 November 2025	Mark-1​	LA-5026​	Dubai Air Show, Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai, UAE

The LA-5020 was also Mark-1.

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

The LA-5020 was also Mark-1.

Thanks brother. Now updated.

LCA - Flying Rickshaw: Record of Crashes

No.​	Date​	Block​	Serial Number​	Status​	Crash Site​
01​	12 March 2024	Mark-1​	LA-5020​	Crashed​	Lakshmi Chand Sanwal Colony, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
02​	21 November 2025	Mark-1​	LA-5026​	Crashed​	Dubai Air Show, Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai, UAE

 

[Khanivore]

Smoke, Failed attempt.
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The following video is of Tejas LA-5020 (SP-20) at the Dubai Airshow 2021, the same Tejas that also crashed last year on 12 Mar 2024.

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The smoke, as you can see from 01:51, is also there with this Tejas because it's actually a condensation vapour forming due to its weird setup of flare dispensers. It's happening during the same maneuver in all of the airshows that I watched Tejas perform.



I hope people will start understanding now that this was not an engine issue.

 

[Ibbi32]

You are clearly wrong. The Soviet Union trained North Korean pilots, but the number was very small. Most Chinese pilots were trained by Japanese officers (Japanese pilots who were left behind in China after WW2), with only a small number of pilots trained by Soviet instructors.

Moreover, the training time for Chinese pilots is very short, with less than a year of training before they can fly planes and participate in combat. The number of Chinese pilots is also small and lacks experience, almost all of whom have grown rapidly in wars.

The quantity of MIG-15 obtained by China is not much, much less than the F-86 from the United States. I don't know why some people believe that the US Air Force is at a technological and numerical disadvantage?

The Chinese Air Force is able to achieve better exchange rates because almost all of these pilots are veterans who have fought for decades and are not afraid of death. Secondly, the Chinese Air Force is in a defensive position, not only with a large amount of anti-aircraft fire cover, but also with a large number of bombers in the US fleet.

Most of the English data comes from the US military. I believe the data released by the US for its own losses is correct. But the US data on number of aircraft shot down is absurd, it is even far more than the number of aircraft possessed by China. The number of Chinese aircraft lost should be based on the data released by Chinese government.

Believe what you want. I agree overclaiming does exist and is only a natural part of war but having seen records of individual engagements and the relative superiority in us pilot training its easy to believe most of their claims. You are right china didnt have enough experienced pilots and an effective training program which really impacted them through the war and is largely the reason they couldn’t effectively target us sabres. The soviets did not perform much better in this regard either with even their veteran pilots being unable to trade favourably with American sabre.

 

[Boss]

"Oh my God, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage"

Ugly faces and sick minds!

 

[m52k85]

It was a bad day for the pilot, he went from sustained -ve g to sudden onset of mid-to-high +ve g, by mistakenly not keeping the stick forward when rolling out of the outside turn. The same manuever was done correctly in Singapore 2022.

 

[Ak01]

The following video is of Tejas LA-5020 (SP-20) at the Dubai Airshow 2021, the same Tejas that also crashed last year on 12 Mar 2024.

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The smoke, as you can see from 01:51, is also there with this Tejas because it's actually a condensation vapor forming due to its weird setup of flare dispensers. It's happening during the same maneuver in all of the airshows that I watched Tejas perform.

View attachment 161552

I hope people will start understanding now that this was not an engine issue.

there is a fuel pressure relief valve on the other side... which is where you see the 'smoke'

 

[Ali_Baba]

It was a bad day for the pilot, he went from sustained -ve g to sudden onset of mid-to-high +ve g, by mistakenly not keeping the stick forward when rolling out of the outside turn. The same manuever was done correctly in Singapore 2022.

I do think that the routine itself is too dangerous, and serves no value if the change in G forces can provide G-LOC or A-LOC that is so borderline. Positive G is easier for pilots to manage than the -ve to +ve, so the routine itself must be changed if they want to continue to demonstrate the Tejas.

 

[Khanivore]

there is a fuel pressure relief valve on the other side... which is where you see the 'smoke'

It doesn't make sense.

 

[MH.Yang]

Believe what you want. I agree overclaiming does exist and is only a natural part of war but having seen records of individual engagements and the relative superiority in us pilot training its easy to believe most of their claims. You are right china didnt have enough experienced pilots and an effective training program which really impacted them through the war and is largely the reason they couldn’t effectively target us sabres. The soviets did not perform much better in this regard either with even their veteran pilots being unable to trade favourably with American sabre.

In the Korean War, the United States participated in a total of 674 F-86s and lost 220.

China has approximately 472 MIG-15(Initially the Soviet Union provided 372 MIG-15s, followed by 100 MIG-15s produced by China itself) and has lost 224 of them.

The United States lost a total of 2714 fighter jets, most of them are old-fashioned fighters or bombers.

Chinese Air Force and Soviet pilots disguised as Chinese Air Force lost a total of 566 fighter jets, most of them are old-fashioned fighters too.

The loss data of the North Korean Air Force is unknown, but the number of aircraft in the North Korean Air Force is very small and can be ignored.

 

[wangdefa]

They've already started doing a face saving gestures that somehow Pakistan, China, and the US sabotaged their plane. This is what the Indians do. If you beat them fair and square, they won't accept it, they'll dilute it with their bullsh*t until fact and fiction all merged into one.

Although the American engine is not very advanced, I still want to say that this time I choose to stand with the Americans. Why does India not admit that the 40-year-old aircraft has no progress and is a poor aircraft?

 

[Fatman17]

Source: Reuters
https://search.app/A6Li4

HAL - isolated occurrence

 

[Ak01]

It doesn't make sense.

really?! are you so sure about that...



tell me more

 

[Raider 21]

Russian Knights flew a missing man and negative G formation as tribute to the martyred aviator as they finished their show at the Dubai Airshow.

'We Fly For You': Russian Fighter Pilot's Heartfelt Note For Indian Tejas Pilot After Dubai Crash

A moving tribute from a Russian fighter pilot has stirred hearts worldwide after the tragic crash of India’s Tejas fighter jet at the Dubai Airshow 2025 on November 21. Wing Commander Namansh Syal of the Indian Air Force lost his life during a low-altitude aerobatic display when the...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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They flew a full aerobatic display with no special mention of the crashed Indian jet. Emiratis did the same too