The aircraft had crashed at the helipad near the Kedarnath shrine a few days back
Clearing the HTT-40's six-turn spin tests removes a monkey from our backs, said design chief Arup Chatterjee
Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa took the pilot's front seat and flew the entire sortie, while Abhinandan Varthaman occupied the co-pilot's rear seat
With Honeywell, demanding what IAF sources term an "exorbitant" price for F-125IN engines, the IAF has told HAL that it has abandoned its plan to upgrade 80 Jaguar fighters with new Honeywell engines
A total of eight crew and five passengers were on board the aircraft, the sources said