U.K. Royal Air Force team lands in Kerala to repair grounded F-35B

After weeks of speculation and uncertainty, the royal Air Force planes carrying a team of experts from the UK touched the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Sunday, July 6, 2025 to repair the grounded F-35b of the Royal Air Force in Thiruvananthapuram. Britain’s war jet, after an emergency landing after technical disruptions, has been grounded at the airport since June 14th.

According to the flight data details, Raf Brize Norton, the largest shelf station with approximately 5,800 service personnel on Friday, July 4, left Oxfordshire’s flight on the same day, Mederranean’s military base on the Island of Mederranean. Later on, he got up from Akrotiri on Saturday, July 5, 2025 and landed at the International Airport on the same day. The plane later started his journey from Muscat to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Sunday morning, where he landed here at 12.46.

According to sources, the team consists of about 17 engineers from the UK and the United States, and the manufacturer Lockheed Martin is based. The royal Air Force plane that brought the expert team to Kerala will return in the evening. The team will stay here for a few days and will investigate the possibility of repairing grounded aircraft. They will investigate the likelihood of correcting engineering problems of the aircraft where it is currently placed (the fourth compartment of the domestic terminal of the ThiruvanantHapuram International Airport).

If it didn’t work, they would think that the airport was pulled into the hangar plant. Remove the tail and wings of the aircraft and send the plane back to England or the United States, but the first two options do not work. The team will do a examination of the plane until Sunday, July 6, 2025. Sources, a final call for the options to be accepted, but will be taken after this review, he said.

The continuous ground of the plane created a feeling of speculation about the attention of a large media and the future. The UK officials claimed that after the completion of the aircraft maintenance and repair with compulsory security checks in Kerala, they were hopeful that the aircraft was taken to the active service of the Royal Air Force. However, the delay in the arrival of the expert team led to a breast feeling on speculation and social media. The plane made an urgent landing after adverse weather conditions in the Indian Ocean. However, the plane had serious engineering problems that could not be corrected by the crew.