Tejas the real hero, says PV Sindhu after flying a Light Combat Aircraft at Bengaluru Air Show
Bengaluru, Feb 23: Ace Indian shuttler P V Sindhu wore yet another feather in her cap by becoming the first woman to fly a sortie in the indigenously built Light Combat Aircraft Tejas at the Aero India show here Saturday and described it as the 'real hero.'
"I am very happy about being the first woman to fly the Tejas. This day is dedicated for women. Hence I will remember this day forever," she told reporters here afer the 40 minute sortie.
Showering praise on the Tejas, Sindhu said the real hero was the indigenously built aircraft and added it was a great experience and opportunity to be the co-pilot.
"It was definitely a great experience and a great opportunity. I feel very honoured that captain Siddharth showed me all the stunts," she said.
Captain Siddharth was the main pilot.
Replying to a query, Siddharth said Sindhu pulled 5G force.
G-force stands for either the force of gravity on a particular extraterrestrial body or the force of acceleration anywhere.
It is measured in g's, where 1 g is equal to the force of gravity at the Earth's surface, which is 9.8 meters per second per second.
Asked if she wished that a woman makes the first trip to space under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Gaganyan yatra programme, Sindhu said it was up to the union government to take the decision.
"I will leave it for them (central government) to take a decision in this regard, but definitely they are doing a very great job," she said.
Army Chief General Bipin Rawat and Principal scientific advisor to the Indian Government, Prof K Vijaya Raghavan, had also flown sorties on the Tejas
The army chief flew the sortie on February 21, a day after the HAL-made fighter jet received the Final Operational Clearance at the air show, signalling it was combat ready.
The Initial Operational Clearance was given in 2013 and IOC standard aircraft were inducted into IAF No.45 squadron in July 2016.
The Tejas will replace the aging Jaguar and Mig-21 fleet in the Indian Air Force.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
