UK experts inspect fighter jet stuck in India for three weeks

A 14-member team of engineers from the UK has begun assessing a state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for more than three weeks now.

The F-35B landed on 14 June at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala where it was diverted after it ran into bad weather during a sortie in the Indian ocean.

The plane then reported a technical snag and was unable to return to the HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy's flagship carrier. read more