IAF lost 46 fighters in 7 years. flight safety issues.

[hans]

Indian Air Fore facing Quality Control issues.

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) has in all lost 46 fighter aircraft in little less than seven years since 2005, government said on Wednesday.

"During 2008 to August 17, 2011, a total of 26 fighter planes of IAF had crashed. During the preceding three-year period of 2005 to 2008, 20 IAF fighter planes had crashed," defence minister A K Antony told the Rajya Sabha.

Replying to a question on crashes involving fighter planes, the minister said, "The makes of these fighter planes were MiGs, Su-30 MKI and Jaguar. Six pilots were killed in these crashes."

During this period, a maximum number of fighter jets crashed in 2009-10, when IAF lost a total of 10 planes, while two crashes have been reported this year till August.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...hters-in-7-years-Govt/articleshow/9723257.cms

 

[desicad]

Its not clear from the report if majority of the crashes were result of the human error or some technical failures.

 

[ranaji]

its not clear from the report if majority of the crashes were result of the human error or some technical failures.

i assume technical faults

 

[GeoG]

Indian Air Fore facing Quality Control issues.

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) has in all lost 46 fighter aircraft in little less than seven years since 2005, government said on Wednesday.

"During 2008 to August 17, 2011, a total of 26 fighter planes of IAF had crashed. During the preceding three-year period of 2005 to 2008, 20 IAF fighter planes had crashed," defence minister A K Antony told the Rajya Sabha.

Replying to a question on crashes involving fighter planes, the minister said, "The makes of these fighter planes were MiGs, Su-30 MKI and Jaguar. Six pilots were killed in these crashes."

During this period, a maximum number of fighter jets crashed in 2009-10, when IAF lost a total of 10 planes, while two crashes have been reported this year till August.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...hters-in-7-years-Govt/articleshow/9723257.cms

hanslal
Good you need to build up some credibility, lets have a few more of this kind before you slip in a nasty one...

 

[only_truths]

I presume IAF is concerned and conducting technical enquiries to find out the truth be it human error or technical faults. If technical faults, then are we trying to source new equipment's from a different source?

 

[gazoomartian]

Indian Air Fore facing Quality Control issues.

NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force (IAF) has in all lost 46 fighter aircraft in little less than seven years since 2005, government said on Wednesday.

"During 2008 to August 17, 2011, a total of 26 fighter planes of IAF had crashed. During the preceding three-year period of 2005 to 2008, 20 IAF fighter planes had crashed," defence minister A K Antony told the Rajya Sabha.

Replying to a question on crashes involving fighter planes, the minister said, "The makes of these fighter planes were MiGs, Su-30 MKI and Jaguar. Six pilots were killed in these crashes."

During this period, a maximum number of fighter jets crashed in 2009-10, when IAF lost a total of 10 planes, while two crashes have been reported this year till August.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...hters-in-7-years-Govt/articleshow/9723257.cms

Must be the ISI destroying these aircrafts (bigsmile)(bigsmile)

 

[Yasir1983]

That's not flying, that's just falling with style :smashfreakB: