However, the combat jet landed safely in the nearby Sulur Air Force station
In the history of IAF aircraft, LCA would be the first to fly with this unique capability of hot refueling and HAL has successfully demonstrated this on LCA Tejas LSP8 aircraft
HAL handed over the first two Tejas aircraft this morning to IAF in Bangalore, which makes up the first squadron named Flying Daggers
Named by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the idea of Tejas was conceived in early 1980s
Sources also said that Tejas will replace the MiG 21s and will be used for air-to-air fight and ground attack