The IAF aircraft took off from Gorakhpur during a training operation, after which it experienced a technical malfunction that caused external stores to be jettisoned as a safety measure.
The explosion took place late Friday after a bus struck the tanker in Wellington, a suburb just to the east of Freetown.
A diesel tank exploded inside a Beirut building on Friday night, killing four people and injuring several others, the Lebanese Red Cross said. It was not immediately clear what triggered the blast in the western neighborhood of Tariq Jadidah.
The government informed the space research organisation about the tank and the team came and took the tank back, the official of the Revenue and Disaster Management said.
The fuel tank of a Tejas aircraft fell onto an agricultural field in Tamil Nadu this morning. The aircraft was on a sortie at the time of the mishap. Any injuries or fatalities have not been reported into the incident, which took place on the outskirts of Coimbatore.
London, Dec 26: A mysterious metal sphere that fell on the Namibian desert in Africa in mid-November has now been identified as a hydrazine tank from an unmanned rocket commonly used in satellite launches, The
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