IAF Tejas crashes at Dubai Air Show

Worldnis · Post by **Worldnis** » 21 Nov 2025, 12:58

News from 21st November Dubai Air Show shows an Indian Air Force Tejas crash after finishing a slow roll / barrel roll during the display. Confirmation from Dubai Air show and IAF that the pilot did not make it out and perished.

India has two Tejas fighters at Dubai, LA-5025 and LA-5026, the latter did the Friday display.
Short clips of the final moment are circulating.

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/indi ... ight-video credit Aerotime
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/562114 ASN Network mentions LA-5026 as the flier [ corrected - see below ]

RobertMB · Post by **RobertMB** » 21 Nov 2025, 15:42

Confirmed as LA-5026 (c/n SP-30). Photo evidence at https://weibo.com/7989879461/QeTEmbjSd

Greetz Robert

Worldnis · Post by **Worldnis** » 21 Nov 2025, 16:02

RobertMB wrote: ↑21 Nov 2025, 15:42 Confirmed as LA-5026 (c/n SP-30). Photo evidence at https://weibo.com/7989879461/QeTEmbjSd

Greetz Robert

Thanks for confirming. Thought I saw 5026 in the images as well, now confirmed as LA-5026, corrected on ASN as well.
The Dubai show report on Scramble mentions LA-5025 and LA-5028, that is where I pulled the number from.

FredL · Post by **FredL** » 22 Nov 2025, 18:16

https://www.7sur7.be/monde/un-avion-de- ... ~a5ab60c9/

Starfighter_F-104G · Post by **Starfighter_F-104G** » 22 Nov 2025, 18:46

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