5.5.2009.
Avioni Su-30MKI Indijskog RV su ipak prizemljeni dok se ne utvrdi razlog pada jednog aviona ovog tipa. Pozvani su i strucnjaci iz Rusije kako bi se ispitali uzroci nesrece.
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IAF summons Su experts for crash, planes to stay grounded
New Delhi | Tuesday, May 5 2009 IST
The recent crashing of the Sukhoi 30 MKI aircraft has further complicated relations between two 'close friends' with the Indian Air Force summoning experts from Russia for the 'complicated technical reasons' that led to the crash, even as it decreed that the frontline fighter planes would remain grounded ''until examined''.
Confirming the summoning of Sukhoi experts from Russia, highly placed sources in the 'Vayu Bhawan' here said until the examination of the aircraft by experts from the original equipment manufacturers is completed, the planes would remain grounded.
The umbrella organisation for defence exports from Russia 'Rosboroexport' has been asked to send a team of experts, and ''very soon'' engineers, designers and infrastructure experts from there would be landing in India, they elaborated.
More damaging is the fact that grounding of the entire fleet of any aircraft is done only when technical faults in it recur and leads to accident, sources said.
Sources also said that preliminary reports have indicated that the presumption that the pilot's death in the Sukhoi crash took place as his parachute did not open, has been proved wrong after initial investigations.
''Wing Commander P S Nara's parachute had indeed streamed (open up on command).'' Also, initial investigations have confirmed that the 'human error' angle in the crash was negligible, sources added.
The sophisticated SU 30MKI plane had crashed on April 30 in Pokharan region of Rajasthan, after taking off from Pune during its routine sortie.
While one of its two pilots, Wing Commander P S Nara, died in the crash, another pilot, Wing Commander S V Munjay, had ejected safely before the plane nose-dived.
Ever since the crash all three squadrons (comprising of about 54 aircrafts) of the Sukhois -- two in Bareilly and one in Pune -- are lying parked and undergoing 'tests'.
This was the first-ever crash of the Su 30MKI since its induction into the IAF in 1997.
Each aircraft costs about Rs 800 crore and each pilot is trained at a cost of around ten crore.
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