Sui-30MKI fighter jet goes missing

[Dhara]

The indians crash this twin engine jet far far too often, something is wrong

Russian fly by fire system sucks, needs intense maintenance after very low flying hours and Indian maintenance record is very poor further Russian supplies of spares plague with bribes and sub standard materials.

 

[onebyone]

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft.

Photographer: Anupam Nath/AP Photos
An Indian fighter jet has gone missing near the India-China border after taking off from an air force base in northeastern India, according to an Indian Air Force official.

The Sukhoi SU-30 aircraft had taken off on a routine training mission when radar and radio contact was lost roughly 60 kilometers north of an air force base in Tezpur, the official said, declining to be named. Contact has yet to be established with the aircraft, this person said.

Roughly one-third of India’s 650-strong air force fleet is more than 40 years old and are set to be phased out over the next decade. The air force currently has only 25 active squadrons, compared to the 45 squadrons it estimates would be required to defend against a joint attack from Pakistan and China.

The Indian Air Force’s rapidly-aging Soviet-era fleet threatens to hamper New Delhi’s ability to counter potential threats from Beijing and Islamabad.

India and China have tense bilateral relations, despite a $70 billion trading relationship. Beijing has invested heavily in Pakistan, India’s nuclear-armed rival, including in the disputed Pakistan-controlled region of Kashmir, which is claimed by India.

China and India also have a border dispute in northeast India, with China claiming all of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh where contact was lost with fighter jet.

Details released so far indicate "that something catastrophic happened," distinguished fellow at the New Delhi-based Centre for Air Power Studies, Manmohan Bahadur.

There’s no reason to suspect that the age of the plane played any part in the incident, he said. "This is a Sukhoi 30, so it is our latest."

India accuses China of occupying 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) in Jammu and Kashmir, while Beijing lays claim to 90,000 square kilometers of land in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

(An earlier version of this story was corrected to fix spelling of Tezpur in second paragraph.)

(Updates with analyst comment in seventh paragraph.)

 

[faithfulguy]

A man is as faithful as his options.-..

Please list atleast one twin engine fighter aircraft with PAF ... ?

True. Since India has import planes, its faith on LCA is less than the imports. LCA Was forced on Indian AF. If they have choice, they would never want LCA.


Good thing that India has a single engine tender so LCA is not needed any longer.

 

[onebyone]

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...ighter-jet-missing-in-region-claimed-by-china

 

[Mrc]

Chinese shot it down
... simple

My thoughts go out for pilot

 

[Windjammer]

A man is as faithful as his options.-..

Please list atleast one twin engine fighter aircraft with PAF ... ?

There's a saying that PAF was flying twin engine jets when half the Indian public slept under bridges.

 

[Icarus]

Chinese shot it down
... simple

My thoughts go out for pilot

Unlikely.

 

[gslv mk3]

There's a saying that PAF was flying twin engine jets when half the Indian public slept under bridges.

Do you realize that we were operating Canberra's at the same time.

Half of the population sleeping under bridges, that must be a lot of bridges. Your fantasies are amusing to say the least.

 

[Hindustani78]

This is the second Su-30 accident this year after the March 15 Su-30 crash near Utarlai airbase of Barmer in Rajasthan. That time both pilots ejected safely.

The Tezpur incident is the eighth crash of the Su-30 MKI fighters in the last eight years. Since 2009, every alternate year saw going down of these mighty birds that remained the mainstay of the IAF since the last decade. More than 250 Su-30 MKIs are in the service at the moment.

 

[GodToons]

THis is probably 2nd/3rd crash in that area. Time to look other angles too...

Hope pilot survives!

 

[Windjammer]

i know him very well... infact he might be little sad that he couldn;t post this news in the first place..

I was actually enjoying another Indian circus unfolding on LOC.

doesn't matter how many years.... we've a policy of not using single engine but that changed witht he current regime.
a nation who can't afford to buy a dual engine has to use single engine Jets for their shows but for us we've options.

As for as republic day is concerned, even with twin engines, you only have the confidence of a simple vertical charlie.

 

[RIP Pak LAW]

Its been like 4 hrs now. No update regarding its whereabouts or crash location site. WTH ?

The last contact with the Sukhoi-30 jet pilots was around 11:30 am when the aircraft was nearly 60 km north of Tezpur in Assam.

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NDTV

 

[Hindustani78]

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ng-mission-goes-missing-tejpur-assam-4669697/

A Sukhoi-30 aircraft with two officers of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on board went missing close to the China border within a few minutes of take-off from the IAF’s base in Tezpur on Tuesday morning. A search launched almost immediately has not yielded any result till late afternoon.

Tezpur-based Defence PRO Lt Col Shombit Ghosh said the aircraft, which was on a routine training mission, lost radio and radar contact with the IAF base at about 60 km north of Tezpur, which is well within the Kameng region of Arunachal Pradesh that shares international boundary with China. The aircraft had taken off from Tezpur IAF base around 10:30 am.

This is the second time that a Sukhoi-30 aircraft of the Tezpur IAS base has met with trouble, the previous occasion being on May 19, 2015 when a Sukhoi-30 aircraft had crashed close to the Laokhowa wildlife sanctuary in Nagaon district, south of the Brahmaputra. Both pilots on board had managed to eject safely to return to Tezpur.

Tezpur, being close to the China border, is a very important IAF base in the Northeast, and Sukhoi-30 aircraft were formally inducted into the IAF station there in May 2006.

 

[帅的一匹]

There has been at least 9-10 known crashes of J-10 (most probably more).
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/dblist.php?AcType=J10

We are talking about a twin engine fighter, J10 is a single engine fighter.

 

[Pakistan First]

So Indians don't have the guts to accept that CHINA has shot down it's fighter jet for flying over an area which China claims as their own.