The aircraft was performing during a flight display programme on the fifth day of Dubai Airshow 2025 that opened on Monday (November 17).
The accident occurred at around 2:15 p.m. local time during a demonstration flight. It wasn't immediately clear if the pilot ejected.
The first-reported crash of the IAF’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) took place on March 12, 2024 in Jaisalmer during an operational training sortie.
The indigenous jet took its maiden flight 24 years ago on January 04, 2001. The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-Tejas was conceptualised in the year 1984. The indigenous single engine 4.5 generation multi-role fighter jet was christened as ‘Tejas’ by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in May 2003.
