Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 31

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 31

Seemab, the second image is not of a PAF F-16. There are clear USAF markings. I don't spot any PAF markings in the third image either.

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 31

Capt_Ck

@Capt_Ck

Oct 31

Everytime there is an accident, all of us as aviators have collectively lost someone dear. It’s not just the crew or the pax or the machine, the loss is always insurmountable.

Just when we thought UCADA had done a great job avoiding any incidents other than a wire hit, we hear of the VTHCX crash.

This opens the Pandora’s box on how constant commercial interests overtake safety. Precious lives lost. When will we wake up to the reality and have the will to prevent more such accidents?

Inputs from a seasoned helicopter pilot in the valley: Best resolution for prevention of such accidents.

1) Make single-engine helicopters, have 2 pilots.
2) All single-engine helicopters to have autopilot.
3) H-SVS - Tailored helicopter synthetic vision with high-resolution obstacle and terrain tracking and mapping in Uttarakhand.
4) Set up 4 ATC and ops centers for all 4 dhams with met and independent VHF frequencies.
5) Set up doppler weather radars and weather reporting facilities en route wherever there are no weather aids.
6) Mandatory simulator refresher, with emphasis on hill ops, for all pilots annually.

UCADA and the helicopter operators have enough funds to ensure all of the above points.

#AccidentPrevention #SafetyPriority #HelicopterOps #UCADA
@VishnuNDTV @ShivAroor @jagritichandra @shukla_tarun @nitinwelde

M K Venu

@mkvenu1

Oct 30

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 30

Air Chief Marshal AP Singh ends his tenure tomorrow - among the finest Chiefs I have seen in 3 decades of covering the forces. Met him first when he headed the National Flight Test Centre's team of test pilots flying the Tejas. Excellent aviator, a very fine mind. Utterly s mind - singularly determined to make changes where they mattered. Didn't want to kick the can down the road. Took on HAL directly with Tejas and made it clear - deliver what you promise or don't deliver at all. This was the man we needed at the helm for Op Sindoor. In an era of social media, foreign disinformation campaigns on X and a plain lack of understanding of how warfare happens, his reputation took a hit over IAF losses during Sindoor. The expectation was of a perfect record. That doesn't happen in military operations of the scale and intensity that we saw. Important to remember ACM Singh as the Chief who helmed the IAF's massive fight back which forced Pakistan to the ceasefire table. On May 10, 2025, the IAF hit Pakistan harder than at any point since the 1971 war, 54 years earlier. By about noon that day, the IAF was clearly on the ascendency, picking off high value targets at will. More than 10 airbases and air defence sites had been struck. An Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft had been shot down. IAF jets tasked with hitting even more targets had to abort their missions when Pak's DGMO picked up the hotline and said they had had enough. That will remain my abiding memory of Air Chief Marshal AP Singh.

sonia singh@soniasinghIndia

Oct 30

Lydia Polgreen@lpolgreen

Oct 29

It seems to me that India’s achievements in human development are extremely undervalued vs China. What it has managed to do as a diverse democracy holds far more relevant lessons for much of the world than China’s sui generis path.

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 31

Seemab Ali@SeemabA04876927

Oct 30

24 Jan 1991 Wing Commander Farhat Hussain Sitara-e-Basalat with Flt Lt Khalid as SP made a Dead Stick Landing at PAF Base Rafiqui
While flying the F-16 Serial 82603 as an instructor pilot Wing commander Farhat Hussain experienced engine seizure at a critical stage of flight 1/4

ᴜᴅᴀʏᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏʙʏ ᴍᴀʟʜᴏᴜᴛʀᴀ 🇮🇳✨️

@UTobyM

Oct 30

idrw

@idrwalerts

Oct 30

AMCA Bids Close Today, Technical Bids to Open Tomorrow, Selection Expected in 2027

idrw.org/amca-bids-clos…

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

Oct 30

VERTEX@vasilyaarkhipov

Oct 30

We are literally repeating the same design-mismatch mistakes of the naval fulcrums. This is what happens when you don't have grid on your own indigenous aircraft like TEDBF: Compromises! Compromises with capabilites.