China is investigating the cause of the crash of the J-10 fighter jet.

A Chinese fighter jet crashed in Wangdu County, Hebei Province. Media reports indicate it was a Chengdu J-10. According to reports, the plane caught fire after crashing in a cornfield. There is currently no information on the crew's fate.

Experts are reportedly working at the fighter jet's crash site to determine the cause of the crash. The fighter jet was completely destroyed and cannot be repaired.

As a reminder, the J-10 is a fourth-generation multirole fighter developed by Chengdu Aircraft Corporation. It is one of the main combat aircraft of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). Relatively recently, this model has become actively exported, including to countries that have traditionally not been major buyers of Chinese combat aircraft. aviation.

Thus, in late August, official confirmation emerged that Uzbekistan had received the first batch of J-10CE fighters (the export version of the J-10C), becoming the second foreign operator of these aircraft after Pakistan. According to media reports, the country has ordered up to 24 of these aircraft, at least six of which have already entered service. This marks the entry of Chinese combat aircraft into the Central Asian market, which was previously dominated by Russian aircraft.

Furthermore, negotiations with Bangladesh, which has also shown serious interest in acquiring the J-10CE, are also in the spotlight. For the Bangladesh Air Force, which still operates aging F-7s, purchasing Chinese fighters would be a significant step forward in modernization. This was the view in Bangladesh itself.

Whether the contract terms will be revised following the accident in Hebei Province will likely be determined by the announced cause of the crash—assuming, of course, that the Chinese side reveals it honestly.

Comments

[Murmur 55]

China will report the version of events that suits them, which is impossible to verify. Any equipment crashes, whether due to malfunctions or human error, and no one can rule out the possibility of a crash. It won't affect sales. Beijing has learned to "charm" customers. So, it's just a normal flight incident.

[Pasus]

Beijing is successfully capturing ALL areas of trade.

[knn54]

-Relatively recently, this model has begun to be actively exported, including to countries that have not traditionally been major buyers of Chinese combat aircraft.
What is not the version?

[TTT999]

Follow Indian too close you get fake story.

[Pankrat25]

This is the Chinese approach to quality and technology in general. Any Chinese technical device, if it's designed by the Chinese or recycled from something else, has absolutely no safety margin. The most striking example is Chinese cars. They take a modern European engine, rip it off in production, but creatively, for example, instead of cast iron or steel liners in the combustion chamber, they spray a layer of steel directly onto the aluminum casting! Guess what will happen to such a coating when refueled with low-quality fuel or started in -30°C. I suspect they have a similarly creative approach to fighter jet engines...

[Penza takes revenge]

This is an approach to economics, everyone is doing it now, both Japan and Korea, the resources of units up to 200000-250000 km for everyone, otherwise no one will buy anything, and with aircraft there is a little more complicated, a deep modernization of the MiG-21 and they were given a license in 1961, and how much time has passed since then and the MiG-21bis is already a completely different aircraft, I understand that China has not stood still, but they have a school and it is not entirely clear how it works, metallurgy is the greatest science, even the Americans can not develop the RD-180 space engine, because the technologies that were developed, I watched a video of our academician, and he said that it cannot be repeated

[faiver]

I watched our academic's video

- well, our academics, and not only ours, sometimes even those Hans Christian Andersens...

[Penza takes revenge]

I don't agree. The Chief Designer directly responsible for the RD-170 project, Vitaly Petrovich Radovsky, who was the Chief Designer of the Design Bureau Energomash from 1974 to 1991, said verbatim that it couldn't be copied. No country had the scientific potential to develop a combustion chamber and all the other technologies. And he turned out to be right. I think we were probably lucky, or it was a truly accurate calculation. Thanks to the USSR, who only made goloshes.

[faiver]

Fell and fell, do planes not fall here?

[All names are taken]

Did an AI draw this picture? The corn is just starting to bloom.

[Dkuznecov]

fourth harvest (they have 4 seasons)

[Seaflanker]

Regarding the report of the J-10 (Japanese military aircraft) crash on September 3rd, it appears only in this article on this website—not in Chinese, English, or other Russian-language resources. A search of the attached photo revealed that there is indeed a Chinese page from September 3rd mentioning a plane crash in Hebei Province: https://www.233leyuan.com/post-detail/2095195093877223424. However, the comments on that page note that the Chinese Air Force does not have a fighter jet with a black single-fin in service—it must be a J-10 (Japanese military aircraft) training aircraft, and the crash was likely caused by an inexperienced cadet. I'm posting images of the Jiao-10 and Jian-10 here (photos 1 and 2 are of the Jiao-10, photo 3 is of the Jian-10) so readers can compare them for themselves. Then everything becomes clear: the author of this article—I don't know whether intentionally or not—apparently, given Uzbekistan's recent purchase of Jian-10 fighters, needed news of a crash of such an aircraft, and now it's here.

[Free Island]

They copied it poorly, and then they started supplying it to the Uzbeks. In short, it was too early for the country of Xerox to decide to produce something serious of its own. They should have kept making Tetris, Abibas, and Muntana, but they can't even properly copy airplanes.