IAF women in combat roles: As we celebrate, let’s hope they don’t become fodder for our rickety old trainer jets

SOURCE: FIRSTPOST It was 3 October, 1982 in Hyderabad. I had just lost my closest friend in a jet aircrash in Bengaluru. He was a test pilot and the second person in my family to suffer a loss of control in a possibly  badly-maintained Kiran jet. My uncle died in Kalaikunda flying a Mystere in […]

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