British F-35 Fighter Jet, Stranded At Kerala Airport For Weeks, Being Towed

New Delhi:

The Royal Navy’s F-35B stealth fighter jet which has been parked on the tarmac in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram airport for three weeks has been towed to a hangar. British technicians have been trying to repair the malfunction in the jet all this while.

They are considering taking the F-35B home in a C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft. A fresh team of engineers arrived in an Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft.

The engineers will check whether it can be repaired locally or will have to be dismantled to fit inside a cargo aircraft for the journey home.

The F-35B fighter jet is valued at over $110 million, and is the most expensive fighter jet in terms of development cost.