A F-35B British combat plane is expected to stay at an Indian airport for almost a month, causing cartoons and cartoons on social networks, flies home from next week, The Association press He reported Thursday, citing Indian officials.
The Royal Navy plane was forced to obtain an emergency landing at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on June 14 in the state capital and has been punished since then, despite the efforts to repair it. The Indian Air Force said last month that it would help in the repair and return of the plane, which made an emergency landing when it flew over the Arabic sea off the Kerala coast.
A spokesman for the high British commission had said Reuters The United Kingdom had accepted an offer to move the plane to the maintenance, repair and review installation at the airport.
AP Today they reported that officials said engineers expected to repair the plane in the next few days before they could fly back to the United Kingdom “at some point in next week.”
The high British commission confirmed at the exit that a British engineering team was deployed to “evaluate and repair” the plane.
“It has been speculated in India that if engineers do not rectify the aircraft, it could dismantle and partially transport in a load plane,” the report said, adding, however, that the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense “dismissed speculation” in a statement sent by email.
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard said in Parliament that a team from the Royal Air Force was in Thirvananthapuram and working with Indian counterparts.
Meanwhile, the Kerala Tourist Board had taken advantage of the presence of the plane, publishing an image generated by the AI of the plane with coconuts at the bottom on July 2. The position was subtitled “Kerala, the destination that will never want to leave.”
“This was part of our tourist campaign. It has been one of the most innovative and striking … all in good humor and creativity,” said Biju K, Secretary of Tourism of Kerala, he said Reuters.
In the publication of viral social networks, originally created by The Fauxy entertainment website, you can see the plane that gives the state of Kerala Five Stars, calling it “an incredible place.”
“I don’t want to leave. I definitely recommend,” says the image, quotes the plane.
“Although tourism is under the government, it has moved from the government space to promote fate,” said Roy Mathew, director of Stark Communications, the brand promotion agency of the Tourism Department.
