India, April 3 -- Indigenously designed and manufactured Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) are set to return to the skies next week, two months after the entire fleet was grounded following an accident involving one of the aircraft at a frontline airbase.

DK Sunil, the Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), the manufacturer of the jets, said the entire fleet of 34 Tejas will fly most likely from April 8 as the glitch found on board the aircraft's software has been resolved. "All the Tejas jets are set to fly again from next Wednesday," he said.

The fleet was grounded in the first week of February after one Tejas jet sustained damage to its airframe after it overshot the runway at the airbase following a s...