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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

India’s Su-30s to be back in use this week

Crashed Su-30MKI FlankerThe Indian Air Force’s Sukhoi Su-30MKI fleet, which was grounded last month over a crash near Pune, will be back in use this week, Air Chief Arup Raha was cited by PTI as saying. The fleet would be back in use “within a week's time” Raha told the news agency on Friday, November 14.

“This (Pune crash on October 14) was an accident which appeared to be automatic firing of the seats. Court of Inquiry (CoI) is about to be complete and the findings are being finalised. We will have the results very soon and we are going to start flying the aircraft very soon,” Raha was cited by the news agency as saying.

Raha was cited as saying that the “preliminary findings” did not indicate that they have been able to find the reason for the crash and the air force “will be able to tackle the problem without much issue.”

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