Syal was performing low-level aerobatic manoeuvres when his Tejas fighter jet crashed during the five-day Dubai Airshow.

The US F-16 demonstration team cancelled its final performance at the Dubai Airshow on November 21 out of respect for 37-year-old Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who was killed the same day after his Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration flight, the US team commander said.

Captain Taylor ‘FEMA’ Hiester, the US Air Force F-16 Viper demonstration team commander, described the organisers’ decision to continue with the flying schedule as “shocking” in a deeply moving Instagram post that brutally captures how it was business as usual at the Dubai World Central after the crash — rock and roll music blasting from speakers, the crowd filming the ne

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