UK fighter jet stuck in India for five weeks leaves for Australia

A modern British fighter plane became the issue of jokes and memes after they were cut off at an Indian airport for more than five weeks that have finally left after the repairs.

A airport spokesman told the BBC:

The plane landed for the first time on June 14 at therofnanhanthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala, where it was Transfer it after it faced bad weather During a sort in the Indian Ocean. Then she developed a technical obstacle.

Its lengthy presence on the Indian soil has sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern plane appears in a foreign country for a long time.

In a statement on Tuesday morning, the British High Commissioner confirmed the departure of the plane. “A UK’s engineering team, which has been deployed since July 6, has completed safety and safety operations, allowing the plane to resume the active service.”

The plane was part of the HMS PRINCE of Wales fleet. The officials did not say why he was flying to Darwin, but it was likely to be the pioneering carrier of the royal navy in the region.

Over the past few days, HMS PRINCE of Wales has published updates and photos on X (formerly Twitter) from the joint exercises that were conducted on the coast of Australia.

After the plane was unable to return, the engineers from the ship visited it to fix it.

But because they were unable to reform it, the UK Ministry of Defense He said Two weeks later, they published a team of 14 engineers “to therofnanhanthapuram airport to evaluate and repair the F-35B.”

There was speculation that if the technicians failed to repair the plane, it should be partially dismantled and implemented in a larger cargo plane such as the Globermaster C-17 transport plane.

F-35BS is very sophisticated aircraft, built by Lockheed Martin, and is estimated to take off short and vertical landing. The case of a plane was collected 110 million dollars (80 million pounds) in the House of Commons.

In India, the “Lonly F-35B” photos, which were stopped on the airport runway and mired in Kerala state, made the subject of jokes and memes.

One viral jokingly joked that the plane was offered for sale on a website at a large competitive price of $ 4 million. The list claimed that the plane included features such as “automatic parking lots, new tires, a new battery and an automatic rifle to destroy traffic violators.”

One of the users said that the plane deserves Indian citizenship as it was in the country for a long time, while another suggested that India begin to impose the rent and that it is Cohenor diamond It will be the most appropriate payment.

The Kerala State Tourism Department also joined the fun with a post on X, which said, “Kerala state, the destination that will not want to leave.”

The post included a picture created from the artificial intelligence of the F-35B that stands on the runway with coconut palm trees in the background. The text, just like many of the country’s visitors, called “the country of God” in tourism brochures, the plane seemed very hesitant in leaving its picturesque surroundings.

On Tuesday, after it started, X users published messages saying “Adios” to the plane as I left “after enjoying more than a month of holidays in the country of God.”

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