The IAF Rafale is a 4.5-gen aircraft and has helped India regain its supremacy over Indian sub-constituent skies with long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles.
The runway of the Lohegaon Airport in Pune was shut for over two hours Monday after an Indian Air Force fighter jet developed a snag and got stalled, affecting 16 flights, officials said. The Lohegaon airport runway is used by the IAF as well as civil aircraft for commercial flights.
One said: ZK027 is off radar now.
Another said: I get alerts whenever a plane calls an emergency and a RAF Jet REG ZK027 has just stopped dead there, now there’s another Jet going towards it.
A third said the plane has either landed or gone out of range wearing 7700 .
An RAF jet has declared a general emergency off the coast of Wales (Image: AIRRADAR)
A 7700 squark is understood to be a common alert which could indicate an incident has occurred or there is a problem with the aircraft.
One plane spotter wrote on Twitter: The Previously reported squawk 7700/7600/7500 aircraft Unknown ZK027 [British Aerospace Hawk T.2] has either landed or gone out of range wearing 7700.