{"id":653427,"date":"2025-11-22T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653427"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:47:00","slug":"hal-issues-statement-on-tejas-fighter-jet-crash-at-dubai-air-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hal-issues-statement-on-tejas-fighter-jet-crash-at-dubai-air-show\/","title":{"rendered":"HAL issues statement on Tejas fighter jet crash at Dubai Air Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the manufacturer of Tejas aircraft, on Friday said it was deeply saddened by the loss of life of the &#8220;courageous IAF pilot&#8221; during the aerial display at the Dubai Air Show.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot has been identified as Wing Commander Namansh Syal.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed on Friday after the indigenous multi-role Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas, crashed in a ball of fire during the aerial display at the Dubai Air Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the manufacturer of Tejas aircraft, on Friday said it was deeply saddened by the loss of life of the &#8220;courageous IAF pilot&#8221; during the aerial display at the Dubai Air Show. The pilot has been identified as Wing Commander Namansh Syal. He was killed on Friday after the indigenous multi-role Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), Tejas, crashed in a ball of fire during the aerial display at the Dubai Air Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}