Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Thursday confirmed that five LCA Mk1a fighter jets are fully ready and an additional nine aircraft have already been built and flown.
Commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1987, the Flag Officer holds a postgraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies.
Panic spread at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport when a passenger aboard an Akasa Air flight allegedly tried to open the aircraft’s emergency exit before its takeoff. The accused passenger was detained and handed over to the police for interrogation.
A security threat was noticed in a Delhi-bound IndiGo flight from Mumbai on Tuesday, an IndiGo spokesperson said. The aircraft was cleared for flight after necessary security checks.
A 13-year-old Afghan boy accomplished what should have been impossible: surviving a flight from Kabul to Delhi by hiding in the landing-gear compartment of a commercial aircraft.
During the recent past, unfortunate controversies had been generated regarding certain killings or attempted killings in Canada and the US respectively.
The missing An-2 light aircraft, which disappeared in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has been found with all three people aboard alive, local authorities said on Sunday.
Air India on Monday confirmed it has placed an order to purchase 100 more Airbus aircraft, comprising 10 widebody A350 and 90 narrowbody A320 aircraft, including A321neo.
Later, Modi left for Delhi from Deoghar in another aircraft after a delay of more than two hours, sources said.
Over 20 aircraft of various airlines received bomb threats on Friday afternoon, the Civil Aviation sources said.
