NEW DELHI: Twenty-nine fighter aircraft including
five Sukhoi-30 crashed over the last five years due to technical defects and
human error, Parliament was told on Friday.
"During the last five financial years
(2012-13 to 2016-17) and current year (upto July 18), 29 fighter aircraft
including five Sukhoi-30 and three trainer aircraft have crashed,"
Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre said in a written reply in the Lok
Sabha.
Various
preventive measures were being taken including streamlining of accident
reporting procedure and quality audits of the aircraft fleets to identify
vulnerable areas to avoid aircraft accidents, he said.
Mr
Bhamre said every aircraft accident in the Indian Air Force (IAF) was
investigated by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) to ascertain the cause of accident and
the recommendations were implemented.
He added that training of pilots was regularly
reviewed to stay abreast of the latest teaching techniques utilising state of
the art training aids.
"Accident prevention programmes have been
given an added thrust to identify risk prone and hazardous areas specific to
the aircraft fleets and operational environment, to ensure safe practices and
procedures."
Source :- NDTV
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