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Sun, Dec 19, 2004

Indian Navy Pilot Trainee Floats Harrier

Pilot was unable to stop in time at coastal site, ditched $23 million aircraft

An inexperienced Indian Navy pilot found out the hard way that the British Sea Harrier is not an amphibious aircraft. The trainee pilot was practicing landings at a coastal airstrip in India when he found himself unable to stop the aircraft.

The Sea Harrier went off the strip and into the sea on Thursday. The pilot was rescued, but the aircraft suffered significant damage.

"There has been an accident involving a Sea Harrier aircraft. It involved a trainee pilot who, after landing, went off the runway of a shore base," Commander Vinay Garg, naval spokesman, told AFP.

The Indian military aviation establishment has lost over 100 pilots in the last ten years in aviation accidents. Most of them, however, were flying Russian MIG aircraft.

FMI: www.indiannavy.nic.in

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