UK experts inspect fighter jet stuck in India for three weeks
A 14 -member engineer team from the UK has begun to evaluate a state -of -the -art British fighter aircraft that has been stuck in an airport in India for more than three weeks.
F-35B landed at Thiruvananthapuram Airport in the southern province of Kerala on June 14, where he was directed after entering bad weather during a sorti in the Indian Ocean.
The aircraft later reported a technical fit and could not return to the Prince of Wales, the flagship of the Royal Navy HMS Wales.
The long -term existence of the Indian territory aroused curiosity, and has shown questions about how such a modern aircraft could be stranded in a foreign country for so long.
Jet was taken to the maintenance repair and revision facility at Thiruvananthapuram Airport [PTI]
Since Jet’s landing, HMS Prince Wales Engineers had evaluated the plane, but they could not fix it.
On Sunday, the British Supreme Commission said that an engineer team from the UK was deployed at Thiruvananthapuram Airport to evaluate and repair the F-35B aircraft. “
The team said that “the necessary expert equipment for the movement and repair process”.
The video images shared by Indian news agencies memorial and PTI landed in Thiruvananthapuram Airbus to leave the team of technical experts.
Videos showed that F -35B has been withdrawn – the High Commission had previously accepted the proposal to move the craft to the maintenance repair and revision (MRO) facility, but they expect the equipment to come from England.
The F-35BS is highly developed hidden jets built by Lockheed Martin and is awarded for short take-off and vertical landing capabilities.
The jet of $ 110 million ($ 80 million) is protected by six officers from the RAF at any time of the day.
The Street Jet case was also raised in the House of Commons.
In India, the “F-35B” images parked on the asphalt and dipped by Kerala Monsoon rains made a subject jokes and mammals that claimed that Kerala, which is defined as “God’s own country” in tourism brochures.
Experts, the engineer team can not repair the plane and deserve to fly, the C-17 Globemaster Transport aircraft, such as a larger cargo plane should be carried out, he says.
