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Gujarat Beechcraft incident- A civilian Beechcraft commuter plane was shot down by a Pakistan Air Force fighter, killing all eight on board. 8 0 July 28, 1963 United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1963) crashed off Bombay Airport, killing all 63 onboard. The cause was probably a loss of control in turbulence and bad weather. 63 0 July 7, 1962
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflicts. It was officially established on 8 October 1932 as an auxiliary air force of the British Empire which honoured India's aviation service during World War II with the prefix ...
The Indian Air Force currently operates seven Air Commands. Each command is headed by an Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the rank of Air Marshal. The Air Force currently has over 60 air stations all over India. These are grouped into seven commands: Western Air Command at New Delhi, Delhi. Eastern Air Command at Shillong, Meghalaya.
While most areas have separate corridors: one for departures and another one for arrivals, the airspace of Delhi in 1996 had only one civilian corridor for both departures and arrivals, because much of the airspace was taken by the Indian Air Force. [17] Due to the crash, the air-crash investigation report recommended changes to air-traffic ...
Situated at the Western Air Command, Subroto Park in New Delhi, CAPS is India’s autonomous think tank that concentrates on subjects and disciplines relevant to the air force, especially on national defence, military affairs and strategy, air power and space and technology issues. It also focuses on national and international issues that have ...
GSAT-7C, planned to replace GSAT-7A for the Indian Air Force. [59] RISAT-2A: Initially planned for launch before RISAT-2B around December 2018 was postponed to 2020. However, there have been no further updates as of 2024. The satellite is planned to be equipped with synthetic-aperture radar and will operate at 5.35 GHz in C band. [60] [61] [62]
The Indian Air Force showed the reporters of India Today and other media houses, the high-resolution satellite pictures possessed by the IAF which according to India Today showed three holes in the roof of one of the buildings. These holes were reported as a "classic signature of a SPICE bomb strike".
Soon after taking off, the crew informed air traffic control that something was wrong and that they would return to Delhi. The pilots were then cleared to make an emergency landing on Delhi's Runway 28. [5] At 9:40 AM, contact was lost with the aircraft. The plane then veered to the left, narrowly missing a village.