Posted on 06/05/2014 7:52:37 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
NEW DELHI: A MiG 29K naval combat aircraft has suffered damage while landing on the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya during operations in Arabian Sea off the coast of Goa, a Navy official said today.
The Russian-origin aircraft had taken off from the Naval airbase INS Hansa in Goa yesterday and was landing on the aircraft when it carried out a 'hard-landing' causing damage to the nose-wheel undercarriage, the official said.
The pilot of the aircraft is safe and the further details of the damage are being assessed, they said.
The Navy has ordered a Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the incident on the aircraft carrier procured from Russia at a cost of over Rs 15,000 crore late last year.
In this incident onboard the 44,500 tonne warship, the pilot missed the first two arrester wires used as aid by the pilot for landing on the carrier and while he was trying to take off again, it got stuck in the third arrester wire causing a hard-landing, Navy officials said.
MiG 29Ks have been procured by India from Russia and India is the only country in the world which operates these twin engine naval fighters.
India has ordered for 45 of these aircraft and this is the first accident involving these aircraft.
INS Vikrant will be commissioned in 2016 or 2017 (a new ship with a name like an one?)
They also got a former Soviet Kiev-class ship in 2013 they call the INS Vikramaditya
apparently they still have the INS Viraat which was laid down in 1944 as the HMA Hermes or something...
talk about an old ship.
Hmmmm. Sounds more like a late wave off to the inflight engagement.
Those weren’t Russian pods.....
Yes, there will be a new Vikrant. And this incident with the Mig29 happened on the Vikramaditya. They’re practicing carrier operations with it, since it’s new to the fleet.
Yup, and with the Vikrant already decommissioned, that’s why they’re really pressing to get their big new carrier into service as fast as possible. The Viraat is badly in need of retiring, but they don’t want to lose their flight operations capability entirely.
According to who I worked for at the time, they were, but I will not repeat the NATO name for them or say more. I was in the business at the time.
I thought they were Israeli pods...
Hey, look a Mig 29k had an inflight engagement! I saw film of an SU-27 variant do the huge pull-up on the wave off and barely miss and inflight. Bad news to adjust youn attitude like that. Much better to hit steel and take your bolter safely.
Harrier crashed in Imperial.
F-18 crashed making a carrier landing. F-18 carrier ops suspended while they sort it out.
PS
A bad carrier landing is called a
McCain Landing
lol
I doubt any of the Sea Hawk pilots are still flying.
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