Combat plane crashes in huge fireball while performing a vertical loop in front of crowd at Dubai Air Show

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/21/2025 | TARYN KAUR PEDLER

[DFG]

Indian HAL Tejas

HAL = Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

[gundog]

Massive fireballs. That’ll put asses in the bleachers.

[ConservativeMind]

This pilot did the absolute right thing, with only a couple seconds available.

Hats off to you, sir. Thank you for saving the spectators.

[null and void]

PULL UP! PULL UP!!!

HAL = Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.

[butlerweave]

Another No Name Given ?

[null and void]

This pilot did the absolute right thing, with only a couple seconds available.

'It was a wonderful show until this tragic accident occurred, shocking all of us watching the airshow. From the way the flight turned before it went down, I strongly feel the pilot tried to save the spectators,' Shajudheen Jabbar, who witnessed the accident

Yes, he would, even at the price of his own life. Fighter pilots the world around are a very special breed of humans.

[TexasGator]

The maneuver was designed to not impact spectators if he screwed up. He screwed up. Period.

[albie]

He didn’t appear to be anywhere near the spectators to me

[Verginius Rufus]

For saving the spectators, he will be reincarnated in a higher caste.

[subterfuge]

And that’s why I don’t go to air shows.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Looks like a mediocre knock off of the SAAB Gripen.

[Red6]

LOL

[Iron Munro]

Looks like a mediocre knock off of the SAAB Gripen.

It did.

Now it looks like Sanford And Son's junkyard.

The Indians won't be selling many of those to potential buyers at the air show this year.

[SaxxonWoods]

I wonder why he was unable to eject.

[higgmeister]

Reminds me of the Delta Dart.

[Zathras]

“Hello this is Peggy”

[null and void]

I wonder why he was unable to eject.

It's very likely he had the ability to eject, but chose to stay with the plane to make sure no one on the ground was killed.

He wouldn't be the first, but one of a long and noble line.

[Justa]

Maybe his team didn’t calculate the maneuver for higher ambient temperature and thinner air.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I wonder why he was unable to eject.

Might have been too many Gs at that point.

Seems like we would have by now a computer controlled eject if the plane is unrecoverable.

[Theophilus]

Yep, looks like a miscalculation. No remains.