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<br />Just a day ahead of India’s annual Aero show in Bengaluru, two Surya Kiran planes crashed during practice,  with one pilot feared dead, according to media <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/india-airshow-crash/indian-air-force-planes-collide-in-air-show-rehearsal-one-pilot-dead-idINKCN1Q80U9">reports</a><br /><br /><br />"Two pilots were airlifted soon after the crash," an airbase official told IANS. <br /><br />The two single-engine aircraft had taken off from the Yelahanka airbase in Bengaluru. During the rehearsal for the upcoming show, they reportedly collided mid-air while performing a  manoeuvre. <br /><br />The Surya Kiran aerobatics demonstration team, comprising 13 pilots, use the Hawk Mk-132 aircraft made by UK-based BAE systems and HAL. These are reportedly supported Rolls-Royce Adour 871 engines.<br /><br />"Mid air crash at Yelahanka... One Indian Air Force pilot suspected dead. Two injured but out of danger," Karnataka Director General of Police and chief of Fire and Emergency Services M.N. Reddi tweeted. <br /><br /><br />With IANS<br />

Two planes collide mid-air during Aero Show rehearsal in Bengaluru

The Indian Air Force (IAF), civil administration authorities and the Indian Army are carrying out a massive rescue operation at Tato in <keyword id="46408" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arunachal-Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</keyword>, after an AN-32 aircraft crashed. The aircraft went on a mission on June 3 with 13 people on board. The IAF found the wreckage of the plane on June 11, and is now searching for the survivors. <br /><br /><br />This year has been bad for IAF aircraft, and has been replete with crashes. <br /><br /><strong>The Jaguar crash </strong><br /><br /><div type="image" title="300px-Jaguar_DF-SD-05-05511" tempid="135948" msid="69758505" hostid="261"></div>

<br />In January, a Jaguar aircraft developed a snag and crashed near Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. The IAF pilot who was flying it, had a narrow escape. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Surya Kiran’s mid-air collision aircraft</strong><br /><br /><div type="image" title="5c6be1b9eb3ce811893a21f4-750-563" msid="69758478" hostid="261"></div>

<br />In February, two Surya Kiran aircraft crashed after a mid-air collision while rehearsing for 'Aero India 2019' air show in Bengaluru. Aero India did not permit the Surya Kiran team to participate in the show after the incident, which led to the death of two pilots. <br /><br /><strong><br />Mirage 2000 crash<br /></strong><br /><div type="image" title="Mirage-2000-air-crash-696x392" msid="69758479" hostid="261"></div>

<sup>PTI</sup><br />In a second incident in February, a French-built Mirage 2000 aircraft crashed minutes after taking off from HAL Airport in Bengaluru. An investigation on the incident which killed two pilots, hints at a possible mechanical issue. <br /><br /><strong><br />Mi-17 helicopter crash in J&amp;K</strong><br /><br /><div type="image" title="download" msid="69758480" hostid="261"></div>

<br />The same month, an Mi-17 helicopter crashed in an aerial engagement at the Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera sector. The event led Pakistan to capture the Indian pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who ejected from the aircraft and landed in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. <br /><br /><br /><strong>MIG-27 crash in Eta village <br /><div type="image" title="300px-MiG-27_(cropped)" tempid="135917" msid="69758434" hostid="261"></div>

</strong><br />Yet again in February, an MiG 27 jet that was flying on a training mission, crashed into Eta village of Pokhran range. The aircraft was flying from Jaisalmer Air Force Station, but the pilot ejected safely. <br /><br /><strong><br />The Jodhpur crash <br /><div type="image" title="plane" tempid="135886" msid="69758352" hostid="261"></div>

</strong><br />In March, an MiG-27 fighter jet, which was on a routine mission from Jodhpur, crashed in a village in Sirohi, Rajasthan following an engine failure. The pilot and the co-pilot ejected safely. <br /><br /><br /><strong>The crash in Bikaner <br /><div type="image" title="300px-MiG-21_Lancer_C_cropped" msid="69758392" hostid="261"></div>

</strong><br />In early March, an MiG-21 Bison fighte<a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indian-air-force-mig-21-fighter-jet-crashes-in-rajasthan-s-bikaner-pilot-ejects/story-RxSDygeTyAUAZy9EL6PFkP.html">r jet crashed </a>in Shobhasar ki Dhani, 12 km from Bikaner city of Rajasthan after it reportedly suffered a bird hit. The pilot of the aircraft ejected safely before the crash.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Crash of Russian-origin aircraft </strong><br /><div type="image" title="f394283382cb82444d5368f90a61e2ef" msid="69758248" hostid="261"></div>
An IAF An-32 transporter with 13 people on board, went missing while flying from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh on Monday. There was no trace of the plane or its wreckage till June 11 when IAF found wreckage of the plane. A rescue operation is currently underway.<br />
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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute</span></p><p class="caption">Artist's conception of Pluto's south pole.</p></div><p></p></div></div>If a spacecraft fatally collides with speeding debris billions of miles into space, would anyone hear the crash?</p><p>No. But decades worth of <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> would be lost.</p><p>Such is the fear of NASA's New Horizons team as the space probe <a href="http://seeplutonow.com/">nears its closest approach</a> to Pluto and its five (possibly more) moons.</p><p>As New Horizons speeds toward the icy planet - <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-do-i-need-to-know-about-nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-to-pluto-2015-7">about 6,200 miles from the surface at about 31,000 miles per hour</a> - it will be nearing the most perilous part of its journey yet.</p><p>"The most dangerous time for a collision is when you pass through the plane of Pluto's equator and when you pass all the other satellites," the mission's project scientist, Hal Weaver, <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-horizons-finest-moment-hour-destruction/">told Wired</a>. Satellites, in this use, means any rocky debris around the planet.</p><p>After an 18-month review that was published in 2013, NASA's New Horizons team identified the most likely thing that would derail the entire Pluto mission: dust and debris.</p><p>That doesn't sound like much of a threat, but when you consider that the spacecraft will be traveling <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-horizons-finest-moment-hour-destruction/">at 31,000 miles per hour</a>, even a blow from a particle <a href="http://app.plutosafari.com/articles/news/05_28_allclear.html">as small as a rice grain</a> could send the whole probe into a tumble.</p><p>And once the craft gets knocked off its course, <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-horizons-finest-moment-hour-destruction/">Hersman told Wired</a>, the entire vehicle could be destroyed - it has no recourse to get back on the right path.</p><p>When New Horizons launched back in 2006, <a href="http://www.space.com/13752-pluto-moons-horizons-spacecraft-danger.html">only three of Pluto's five moons were known to exist</a>. The Hubble Space Telescope found two of the three merely two and a half months before New Horizons launched. This presents a logistical challenge for the vulnerable craft. The more moons that are nearby, the more targets there are for space rocks originating from the nearby Kuiper Belt to smash.</p><p>Any smashing means the creation of even more space rocks. The bits of dirt and rock that ricochet off the moons as a result of space rock collisions will then be floating around - dangerously in New Horizon's path.</p><p>Alan Stern, principle investigator of the New Horizons team, isn't too worried. He <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-nasa-counts-down-to-nail-biter-pluto-flyby-2015-7">told AFP</a> that "there is a one in 10,000 chance that the spacecraft could be lost in a collision with debris around Pluto."</p><p>NASA <a href="http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150701">announced on July 1</a> that, after 7 weeks of searching for anything that could come in the way of New Horizons' path - dust clouds, rings or any other obvious threats - the path seems to be mostly clear, as far as they could tell, and they made the decision for New Horizons to stay on its predetermined course.</p><p>Other than a momentary blunder on July 4 - in which the spacecraft <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-unexpectedly-went-into-safe-mode-2015-7">lost communication with Earth</a> for a frightening 90 minutes - the mission has had smooth sailing. 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