India-made fighter jet Tejas crashes for first time; pilot ejected safely

Reuters ^ | March 12, 20246:04 AM CDT | Staff

[Organic Panic]

One thing modern fighters can’t do is handle stalls with those skinny wings. One glitch in the computer stabilizing system or a slight loss of power at slow speeds and they drop.

[IndianChief]

The aircraft, as evidenced by cellphone video, was stable till crashing. But it had lost power, either a bird-hit or a flameout of its single GE F404 engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmTdPzDfF8&list=RDNSUPmTdPzDfF8&start_radio=1

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

WTF is a “light combat aircraft?” Is that a plane a pilot takes when he’s just not feeling it that day?

[Red Badger]

Maybe it has fricken’ LASERS mounted on its head!............... 😎

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Sounds like the plane is the equivalent of ill tempered sea bass.