Another Indian Air Force aircraft is believed to have crashed, this time an Antonov AN-32 transport aircraft (similar to the one pictured above) with 12 people reportedly on board. This follows the crash of a Sukhoi Su-30MKI earlier in 2009 and several fatal incidents involving other IAF aircraft over the last year.We still do not know what happened with the AN-32, but what is clear is that the IAF needs to push ahead with its modernisation programme and replace a lot of its ageing aircraft sooner rather than later.
It is simply too costly to maintain so many old aircraft, and the chances of unfortunate incidents like a crash increase as time passes by.
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