Indian Tejas fighter jet crashes at Dubai Airshow, killing pilot

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An Indian home-produced Tejas fighter jet crashed in a ball of fire at the Dubai Airshow during an aerial display on Friday (Nov 21), killing its pilot, and the Indian Air Force said it was setting up a court of inquiry to investigate the cause.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4naw9m62  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00An Indian Tejas fighter jet crashed in a fireball during a low-altitude display at the Dubai Air

00:14Show on Friday, killing its pilot. A witness said the jet had been flying low at about 2.15

00:20p.m. local time before it went down. The crash occurred on the final day of the Middle East's

00:26largest aviation event, which began on Monday. The Indian Air Force 1AF said a court of inquiry

00:33will be convened to determine the cause. The homegrown Tejas, its name meaning

00:38brilliance in Sanskrit, is central to India's push to modernize an air force still dominated by Russian

00:44and Soviet-era jets. First developed in 2001 to replace the MiG-21s, the IAF plans to field nearly

00:52220 Tejas fighters, including the MK-1A variant, over the next decade.

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