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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Amelia Neath

Indian tourist board mocks stranded Royal Navy F-35 fighter jet: ‘I don’t want to leave’

Thw British F35 fighter jet stranded in India after making an emergency landing - (Indian Air Force)

An Indian tourist board has poked fun at a multi-million pound Royal Navy stealth fighter which has been stranded at an airport in the country for almost three weeks.

The state-of-the-art F-35B Lightning jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on 14 June after it hit bad weather while flying around 100 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala in southern India.

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