Sri Lanka, July 7 -- 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.

Its prolonged presence on Indian soil has sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern aircraft could remain stranded in a foreign country for so long.

Since the jet's landing, engineers from HMS Prince of Wales had assessed the aircraf...