List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (2000–2009)
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the baaa-acro.com archives[1] or the aviation-safety.net database.[2] Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.
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Aircraft terminology
Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.
For this list, the criteria used for a military aircraft will be: any
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2000
March
- 14 March
- Indian Air Force trainer crashed near Hyderabad, killing 1 instructor on board. His Trainee survived. Sqn Ldr Vishal Mehta was killed while trying to bail out of the trainer aircraft which developed a technical snag.[3]
April
- 8 April
- A killing all 19 United States Marines on board.[4]
- 19 April
- A Rwandan Air Force Antonov An-8, TL-ACM, chartered from Central African Airlines, crashed near Pepa, Democratic Republic of the Congo after engine failure caused by a suspected bird strike. All 24 on board were killed.[5]
June
- 19 June
- A NAS JRB Willow Grove, killing the pilot and Radar Intercept Officer.
July
- 26 July
- A C-130H Hercules, 348, crashed shortly after takeoff from King Hussein Air Base, Mafraq Governorate, Jordan. Due to mechanical failures which resulted in the death of all 13 crew members on board.[6]
August
- 25 August
- Exeter Airport.[7]
- 31 August
- The first Beechcraft T-6A Texan II this date.[8]
September
- 28 September
- A
October
- 25 October
- A Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-18 crashed near Batumi, Georgia killing all 84 people on board.[10]
November
- 1 November
- LTV A-7H Corsair II, 159666, of the 345th Mira, crashed near Cape Tainaros, Crete, Greece. The pilot survived.
- 16 November
- Indian Air Force Mil Mi-8 crashed near Rann of Kutch, killing all 12 people on board.[11]
December
- 11 December
- The 18th MCAS New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina, killing all four crew members.[12]
2001
January
- 19 January
- A Turkish Air Force CASA CN-235 crashed near Kayseri after entering a spin from which recovery was not possible, killing all 3 people on board[13][14]
- 27 January
- The second Antonov An-70 prototype crashed seconds after departure from Omsk airport following multiple engine failure. All 33 on board survived.
February
- 16 February
- A Douglas A-4K Skyhawk, NZ6211, from No. 2 Squadron RNZAF crashed near HMAS Albatross in New South Wales while practicing maneuvers for an upcoming air show, killing the aircraft's pilot.[15][16]
March
- 3 March
- A RED HORSE detachment on board who had been training at Hurlburt.[17]
- 23 March
- A
April
- 1 April
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- 4 April
- A Sudan Air Force Antonov An-24 crashed during a sandstorm in Adar Yeil, Sudan. Of the 30 people on board, 14 were killed; among them, Sudan's deputy defense minister as well as other high-ranking officers.
- 12 April
- A Mil Mi-24V, 715, while performing low-level formation flight over the range near Gyulafirátót, killing the crew of 579. Aircrew of 715 sustained serious injuries but survived.[24]
May
- 16 May
- A
- 17 May
- A Fokker F-27 Friendship of the Argentine Air Force crashed near El Plumerillo Airport in Mendoza Province. The 5 crew members died on impact. It is believed the cause of the accident was a malfunction in one of the engines that caused it to catch on fire.[27]
- 18 May
- A Turkish Navy CASA CN-235 on a test flight crashed after the pilot lost control after reaching an altitude of just 100 feet, killing all 4 people on board.[13][28]
- 25 May
- A
- 29 May
- Three crew are killed when a Seoul, South Korea while installing a torch-shaped sculpture on the Han River Olympic Bridge, built to commemorate the 1988 Olympic Games. The Chinook had just lowered the flame-shaped statuary onto the bridge central tower when its rotors hit the sculpture and then the tower. The front rotor clipped the top of the sculpture and separated from the helicopter which then fell onto the span, breaking in two, with the rear bursting into flame on the bridge and the forward half falling into the river. No other casualties were reported. The bridge had been closed during the installation work. The dead were identified as pilot Chun Hong-yop, co-pilot Nam In-ho and Sgt. 1st Class Kim Woo-soo. Army scuba divers were working to recover the wreckage.[31]Footage of this crash is also widely available on the web.
- 29 May
- A US Navy NAS Key West, Florida. The pilot was killed.
July
- 17 July
- At pilot Maj. Aaron George of the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) from a second F-16, also from the 416th Flight Test Squadron.[33]
October
- 12 October
- A Swiss Air Force Aérospatiale Alouette III crashed after a collision with a cable in Montana Valais causing the death of all four occupants.[34] it was the second crash after a cable collision within five months in the Swiss Air Force[29]
December
- 1 December
- Main article:Ilyushin Il-76TD caught fire and crashed near Novaya Inya, Russia, killing all 18 on board.
2002
January
- 8 January
- A General Dynamics F-16A crashed during approach at Kleine Brogel Air Base. The pilot ejected safely.
- 9 January
- A USMC Lockheed KC-130R, BuNo 160021 of VMGR-352 (RAIDR 04) crashed into mountainous terrain while on a nighttime approach to Shamsi, Pakistan, 270 kilometers southwest of Quetta, Pakistan, killing all seven crew members on board.
February
- 17 February
- A USMC WSO, while hospitalized, died from his injuries.
- 21 February
- A Archangelsk, northern Russia, during an emergency landing. Of the 20 people on board, 17 were killed.[35]
March
- 2 March
- A Grumman F-14B Tomcat, BuNo 162923, of VF-143, 'AG', from the carrier USS John F. Kennedy crashed into the Mediterranean near the Greek island of Crete, killing its pilot.[36] The aircraft was launching from the carrier when the nose gear disintegrated – both crew ejected but the pilot was outside the envelope and was killed.
- 8 March
- A NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach, Virginia crashed into the Arabian Sea after a failed attempt to land on the carrier USS John C. Stennis. The Navy said both crew members were pulled from the water by a rescue helicopter shortly after the accident; neither appeared to be seriously injured.[36]
- 9 March
- A Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed in Monte Real, Portugalwhile practicing aerobatic maneuvers, killing the pilot.
April
- 2 April
- A Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon of HM-14 BuNo 163051 crashed on the runway at Bahrain International Airport. All 18 men and woman on board survived with only a few cases of minor injuries.[37]
- 11 April
- A Goa Air Force Station, Karwar, killing the pilot, Flying Officer Prashant Kumar Mishra.
- 20 April
- During the
- 24 April
- A General Dynamics F-16B collided with an Ikarus C42 (regn PH-3G8) at Sellingen. The pilots of the F-16 and the Ikarus C42 were killed. The pilot in the backseat of the F-16 ejected and survived.
- 30 April
- A McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0022,[40] of the 40th Flight Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, crashed in the Gulf of Mexico ~60 miles S of Panama City, Florida, while on a captive flight development test of a new air-to-air missile, killing test pilot Maj. James A. Duricy, assigned to the 40th Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing. His body was never recovered. An Accident Investigation Board determined that the crash was caused by the structural failure of the honeycomb material supporting the leading edge of the port vertical stabilizer during a high-speed test dive. A section of the leading edge, approximately 6 X 3 feet, broke away.[41] "The doomed F-15C was flying at 24,000 feet when part of its tail broke off. Maj. James A. Duricy ejected at 900 mph and was killed. Investigators said the tail had corroded over the years. The fighter had gotten old."[42] A static display F-15 formerly assigned to the 46th Test Wing, was dedicated to Major Duricy at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, on 9 August 2007.[43]
May
- 3 May
- bank building, killing eight on the ground.
- 12 May
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June
- 2 June
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July
Crash of Desert Duck 744 - 5 July
- U.S. Navy HC-2, Detachment 2, based out of Bahrain, suffered tail rotor failure while landing aboard the USS Cushing, spun out of control, went over the starboard side. Seven on board escaped safely.
- 27 July
- Main article:Sukhoi Su-27UB crashed during the Lviv airshow, killing 77 spectators, 28 of them children.[47]199 were injured. The two pilots managed to eject, but the aircraft crashed onto spectators watching the airshow from the ground. The aircraft lacked the altitude to escape the crash, hit the tribune and fell on the ground. As stated by Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the crash was caused because of engine failure. The pilots & unit commanders were later jailed.
August
- 7 August
- A USAF Caguas.[49]
- 19 August
- A Russian Air Force Mil Mi-26 helicopter was shot down by Chechen rebels using a portable SAM, probably an Igla, in Khankala, Russia. Of the 152 on board, 118 were killed.[50]
September
- 10 September
- United States Navy Lockheed S-3B Viking, BuNo 159402, from VS-22 and based aboard USS Harry S Truman, crashed into the sea at night 25 miles south-east of Puerto Rico. The aircraft's three crew-members were killed.
October
- 3 October
- Sikorsky UH-3 Sea King helicopter. On 5 May 2006, one of this Tomcat's tail-fins was discovered on an isolated beach W of Cork, Ireland, having floated 4,900 miles (7,900 km.) across the Atlantic. This was the sixteenth and last Tomcat lost by VF-101 during 30 years of operation.[52]
- 18 October
- Two Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets collided during air combat manoeuvring off the Southern California coast and crashed into the Pacific Ocean 80 mi SW of Monterey, California. All four crew (two Pilots and two WSOs) were killed while flying (KWF).
November
- 3 November
- A USS George Washington from a night at sea bombing mission and crashed into Adriatic Sea. Pilot was killed.
- 12 November
- A
2003
January
- 6 January
- A US Navy F/A-18 Hornet hit an arresting gear box and skidded off the runway at NAS Lemoore, while conducting Field Carrier Landing Practice during a period of heavy fog due resulting in extremely low visibility.[54]
- 17 January
- A US Marine Corps MCAS Miramar, California, due to a material failure during a functional check flight with one engine shut down. Both crewmembers ejected safely and were recovered.
February
- 19 February
- Main article:Ilyushin Il-76MD, 15-2280, c/n 0063471155,[55] formerly registered YI-AND, crashed into a mountain in poor weather near Shahdad, Iran. All 18 crew and 284 passengers on board were killed.
- 20 February
- A Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir. PAF spokespersons said on 22 May that pilot error was to blame.[56]
- 27 February
- A Sikorsky CH-124B Sea King helicopter, 12401, of 12 Wing, crashed on the deck of HMCS Iroquois in the Persian Gulf. No-one was killed, but the ship's mission in the Gulf was postponed.[56][57]
March
- 22 March
- During the Airborne early warning (AEW) helicopters, registration XV650, 'CU-182', and XV704, 'R-186', collided in mid-air five miles (8 km) from their aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal while one had been leaving on a mission as the other returned from the same operation. One American exchange pilot on board, a former E-2C Hawkeye pilot formerly from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One One Five, was killed.[58]It was later revealed that the three main contributory factors noted by the Board of Inquiry coincided with the three main areas of degradation between the older AEW Mk2 and the upgraded ASaC Mk7; all three factors had been identified and mitigation put in hand, but two were cancelled by an unauthorised official and the other rejected by the RN.
- 22 March
- A RAF Tornado GR4 ZG710 was shot down by a US Patriot Missile Battery, killing both crew. It later emerged that the primary cause (failure to properly integrate IFF) had been identified in 1998 but corrective action rejected.
May
- 1 May
- A C-17 Globemaster IIItraining.
- 26 May
- A Canadian Armed Forces CF-18 crashed north of CFB Cold Lake during a training exercise. The pilot, who ejected, was killed.[64]
August
- 18 August
- A CASA C-295crash.
September
- 11 September
- While landing aboard angle at ~1600 hrs. when the arresting cable snapped; the pilot ejected and was recovered. The broken cable, whipping back across the deck, injured eleven deck crew, the most seriously of whom were airlifted to shore medical facilities.[68] Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxMox2Kdxs
Captain Chris Stricklin ejects from his F-16 at an air show in September 2003. - 14 September
- Opposing Solo Pilot, Capt. Chris R. Stricklin, in Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, ejected in ACES IIseat 8/10ths of a second before the aircraft impacted the runway. Stricklin survived with no injuries.
- 18 September
- A Stepnoye settlement, Sovetskoye, Saratov oblast, killing the four crew. There were no armaments aboard. Just before the crash the crew reported an engine fire to ground control, after which contact with the pilots was lost. The wreckage of the bomber was found 35 km from its base. No injuries occurred on the ground. The main staff of the air force identified the dead as crew commander, Lt. Col. Yuriy Deyneko, co-pilot Maj. Oleg Fedusenko [the Russian TV channel gave this name as Fedunenko in its 1000 GMT newscast], and the navigators as Maj. Grigoriy Kolchin and Maj. Sergey Sukhorukov. This was the first Blackjack loss in 17 years of operations.[70][71]
November
- 15 November
- Two . Twenty-two soldiers were on both aircraft and 17 were killed.
- 29 November
- An Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Antonov An-26, 9T-TAD, blew out a tire while landing in Boende, Democratic Republic of the Congo, overran the runway and crashed into a market square. Of the 24 people on board, 20 were killed and 13 people on the ground died.[72]
December
- 9 December
- Two General Dynamics F-16A collided near Havelange. One pilot ejected safely, the other was killed.
2004
February
- 26 February
- Beechcraft 200 Super King Air, Z3-BAB, c/n BB-652, crashed into mountains while attempting to land in poor weather at Mostar International Airport, Bosnia – Herzegovina. All 9 aboard were killed, including Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski. The probable cause was attributed to pilot error - the two-man crew misinterpreted crucial flight data in stormy weather.[73]
March
- 16 March
- A U.S. Air Force Beechcraft 1900 crashed on approach to Tonopah Test Range Airport after the pilot suffered a heart attack. All five aboard were killed.[74]
- 23 March
- First prototype Boeing X-50A Dragonfly Canard Rotor/Wing crashed at the United States Army Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona, during its third hover test flight. It had made its first flight on 4 December 2003.[75]
- 24 March
- McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, of VFA-82, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Tybee Island, Georgia. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued.
June
- 21 June
- Grumman F-14A Tomcat of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, flown by Capt. Darioush Yavari and Col. Ali Abou Ataa, crashed on approach to Shahid Beheshti Air Base when Yavari, an experienced Northrop F-5 pilot qualifying on the F-14, misjudged his sink rate during a no-flaps landing, undercarriage and struck the runway with enough force to flip the Tomcat onto its back, killing both crew. The probable cause was determined to be a premature rush to put the pilot in the cockpit without his having completed his flight-simulator course. The commanding officer of TFB.8, Gen. Ahmad Mieghani (himself a former F-5 pilot) resigned, but the investigative commission reinstated him, recognizing the true source of the problem.[76]
July
- 21 July
- Two The Dalles, suffering minor injuries.[78] All three crew ejected but only two parachutes opened. The fighters were on their way to the Boardman Air Force Range, where the Oregon Air National Guard trains, when they collided, said one spokesman. Another spokesman told the Associated Press that the aircraft were on a low-altitude training exercise.[79]
August
- 15 August
- A Okinawa. This was due to improper maintenance. The failure to install a cotter pin resulted in vibrations forcing loose a bolt, thus causing separation of the tail boom from the aircraft. The aircraft proceeded to spin out of control striking a college building before hitting the ground and catching fire. The post maintenance test flight crew of 3 survived the crash with injuries. [80]
- 21 August
- A
September
- 9 September
- A low-flying Westland Lynx AH.9 helicopter, ZE382, of 661 Squadron AAC, 1st Regiment, Army Air Corps, was caught in high-voltage electric wires during an Anglo-Czech joint military training exercise near the village Kuroslepy (near Brno). All six persons on board died.[83]
- 11 September
- A Boeing-Vertol CH-47SD Chinook, EZ-916, of 4 TEAS, ditched into the Aegean Sea off Mount Athos, Greece around 1056 hrs. killing all 17 on board. Among those killed was Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria.[84][85]
- 14 September
- A US Navy RAAF Tindal, Australia, during a day approach to landing. The pilot ejected and was injured.
- 16 September
- A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 belonging to the Albanian Air Force, crashed shortly after taking-off from Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza on an exercise flight. The sole pilot onboard perished.[86]
- 21 September
- A Tallil Air Base in Southern Iraq. All four crew members sustained injuries and were rescued by firefighters from the 407th Air Expeditionary Group and medical personnel from the 407 Expeditionary Medical Squadron.[87]
November
- 9 November
- A Nellis AFB, Nevada, due to an in-flight fire and becoming uncontrollable shortly after takeoff. The pilot ejected safely.
- 26 November
- Bell-Boeing MV-22B Osprey, BuNo 165838, lost a 20 × 4 inch piece of a prop-rotor blade during test flight in Nova Scotia, Canada, but was able to make safe precautionary landing at CFB Shearwater despite severe airframe vibration.[88] The blade failed after apparently being hit by ice which broke off from another part of the aircraft.[89]
- 29 November
- A Fort Hood, Texas, when it struck guy-wires supporting the television antenna of KXXV, near Waco, Texas, killing all seven soldiers aboard. Conditions were foggy and the warning lights on the tower were not lit, in violation of both Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations. Victims included Brigadier General Charles B. Allen of Lawton, Oklahoma; Specialist Richard L. Brown of Stonewall, Louisiana; Chief Warrant Officer Todd T. Christmas of Wagon Mound, New Mexico; Chief Warrant Officer Doug Clapp of Greensboro, North Carolina; Chief Warrant Officer Mark W. Evans of Killeen, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer David H. Garner of Mason City, Iowa; and Colonel James M. Moore of Peabody, Massachusetts.[90]
December
- 2 December
- The pilot of a McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, BuNo 161956, ejected approximately one mile off Perdido Key, Florida, after reporting mechanical problems and loss of power. Lt. Ted Steelman suffered minor injuries and fully recovered.
- 10 December
- Two Canadian Armed Forces Canadair CT-114 Tutor trainers of 431 Snowbirds Air Demonstration Team, 114064 and 114173, flying as opposing solo '8' and '9' (unclear which was which), collided at the top of a loop during practice over Mossbank Airfield, an abandoned World War II aerodrome. Captain Miles Selby, pilot of '8' was killed instantly, but Captain Chuck Mallet was thrown clear of the wreckage of '9', released his lap belt and pulled his chute release, landing with minor injuries.[91]
An FMA IA-63 Pampa trainer aircraft of the Argentine Air Force crashed near the runway of Base Aeronaval Punta Indio near La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. The sole pilot died in the accident. The aircraft was performing an exhibition flight for a group of Chinese entrepreneurs.[92]
- 20 December
- Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, 00-4014, c/n 4014, tailcode 'OT', of the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron, crashed on takeoff at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, prompting the U.S. Air Force to ground most of its other F-22s. The pilot ejected safely from the Lockheed Martin-built jet, which smashed into the runway it was trying to leave at about 1545 hrs. local time and burned.
2005
January
- 18 January
- During a training flight, a midair collisionin daylight VFR conditions during cruise flight distant from an airport.
- 26 January
- Main article:Ar Rutba, Iraqkilling all 31 on board.
- 29 January
- A EA-6B Prowleren route to the water. Crew LTJG Jon Vanbragt, LCDR Markus Gudmundsson ejected safely.
- 31 January
- A Colombian government Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on an anti-narcotics mission crashed in heavy fog near Manguipayan, Colombia killing all 20 on board.
March
- 31 March
- A 352d Special Operations Group, RAF Mildenhall, departed Tirana-Rinas Airport, Albania, for a night training mission to work on terrain-following and avoidance skills, airdrops and landing using night-vision goggles. Flying 300 feet (91 m) above mountainous terrain, the airplane had insufficient altitude to clear a ridge and stalled as the crew attempted to climb away. The aircraft was destroyed on striking the ridge, and all nine crew members on board were killed.
April
- 2 April
- A Shark 02 of 817 Squadron RAN crashed on the Indonesian island of Nias while providing humanitarian support following the 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake, killing 9 Australian Defence Force personnel on board.[96]
- 18 April
- A
July
- 18 July
- A China Lake, California, weapons testing ground. The pilot of the E was killed while flying, while the two crew of F ejected with injuries.
August
- 15 August
- A
September
- 5 September
- Kamov Ka-27P rescue helicopter, and brought on board in a "normal condition." According to a source in Naval Headquarters, "it is possible that the pilot also made a mistake during the incident. The jet pilot, according to instructions, should have revved the engine after the cable broke and performed an emergency take-off. However, the fault of the pilot can be determined only after analysis from the Su-33’s black box," reported Kommersant. Capt. Of First Rank Igor Dygalo, head of the press center of the Main Staff of the Navy, said that the black box released as it was designed and surfaced after the aircraft sank. This was the first loss of the type during a "sea flight."[101]
- 9 September
- A
- 15 September
- Russian Air Force St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, for unknown reasons veered off its course while travelling over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, entered Lithuanian airspace and crashed in Jurbarkas region, Lithuania. No one was harmed during the incident, and pilot Maj. Velery Troyanov ejected safely.[105]
December
- 6 December
- Main article:Lockheed C-130E Hercules, 5-8519, crashed into an apartment building in Tehran, Iran. Ninety-four people on board were killed as well as 14 in the building.[106]
2006
January
- 3 January
- A
- 10 January
- A US Navy NAS Pensacola, Florida, on a low-level navigation training mission, failed to arrive at ≈1500 hrs. as expected. The wreckage was found late 11 January near LaFayette, Georgia. All four personnel on board, a Navy instructor, a Navy student, an Air Force student and a civilian contract pilot, were killed. Their identities were not immediately released.[108]
- 19 January
- A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 carrying peace-keepers from Kosovo crashed near Telkibánya, Hungary. Of the 43 people on board, only one survived.
- 28 January
- An F/A-18 Hornet attempting a night landing aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) crashed into the flight deck and skidded off into the ocean about 200 kilometres south-east of Brisbane, Australia. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued from sea, but the $37 million aircraft was lost.[109][110]
March
- 9 March
- A Learjert 35 of the Argentine Air Force crashed shortly after taking off from El Alto airport near La Paz, Bolivia. The 5 crew members died on the crash. The aircraft had been on a humanitarian mission carrying medical supplies to Bolivia.[111]
April
- 3 April
- A
- 10 April
- A Kenya Air Force Harbin Y-12 crashed in Marsabit County in Kenya as it approached Marsabit air strip killing 14 occupants, including a number of politicians.[113]
May
- 5 May
- During the Children's Day flight exhibition at Cessna A-37B Dragonfly.[114]
- 23 May
- A EgyptAir flight that was passing by. The Greek pilot, Flight Lieutenant Konstantinos Iliakis, was presumed dead, but the Turkish pilot, 1st Lieutenant Halil Ibrahim Özdemir, was rescued[117] by a freighter under Panamanian flag, but refused to board a Greek SAR helicopter.[118] Greek Super Puma and Turkish Cougar SAR helicopters were dispatched to the area.[119]
June
- 3 June
- Main article:Guangde County in the People's Republic of China. All 40 people on board died.[120]
- 26 June
- McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet collided with another over Fort Hunter Liggett, north of San Luis Obispo, California. The other pilot successfully ejected and survived.[121]
July
- 6 July
- F-16Itail 489 crashed while taking off from an IDF base in the Negev desert due to a tyre bursting. The crew ejected safely.
- 13 July
- A BAE/McDonnell Douglas Harrier II GR.9 crashed after the pilot ejected near Kidlington in Oxfordshirein the United Kingdom.
- 16 July
- A Bell 222/230 helicopter belonging to the Albanian Air Force flying from Tirana to Bari, Italy, lost contact with air traffic control over the Adriatic Sea. On board the helicopter was Gramoz Pashko, an ex-member of the Albanian Parliament who was being transported to Italy for specialized medical care after he had hit his head while diving in the sea previously during the day, leaving him in a coma. He was accompanied by his son, a doctor and three crew members. The cause of the accident could never be determined as the wreckage of the helicopter was never recovered.[122]
September
- 2 September
- Main article:Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod MR.2 reconnaissance aircraft, XV230, crashed near Kandahar, Afghanistanafter a fire and explosion caused by a fuel leak. All 14 crew on board were killed.
- 14 September
- A 52d Fighter Wing, based out of Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, crashed in the nearby village of Oberkail after a landing gear failure prevents it from making a controlled landing. The pilot, 1st Lt. Trevor Merrell, ejected safely after aiming his aircraft towards a vacant cow pasture, where it crashed, causing no injuries.[123][124]
- 17 September
- crashed killing fifteen, including many senior officers.
October
- 24 October
- A Wattisham Airfield and RAF Leconfield. The pilot and navigator were flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, their condition was not thought to be life-threatening, but were being assessed as standard procedure and whether or not there had been any stress to their Vertebral column. Bird strike was thought at the time of the incident to have caused the crash, resulting in the aircraft's sudden engine failure.[125][126][127]
November
- 29 November
- Two members of the Sikorsky S-70A-9 Black Hawk helicopter, A25-221, of 171 Aviation Squadron, hit the deck of HMAS Kanimbla and crashed off Fiji.
December
- 16 December
- A Antonov An-32B, 3103, of 3 Grupo Aero/EATP 301, crashed into the sea off the coast of Mexico, near Acapulco. The four crew members on board were killed.
- 18 December
- The UAVaircraft crashed due to an "irreversible unintentional failure in the flight termination ground equipment, which caused the aircraft's automatic fail-safe flight termination mode to activate", cited by Lockheed Martin.
2007
January
- 24 January
February
- 2 February
- A Yelahanka Air Base near Bangalore, India. The pilot was severely injured, and the co-pilot was killed. The Saarang team continue their planned performance for the airshow.
- 18 February
- A 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, crashed in southeastern Afghanistandue to a sudden, unexplained loss of power and control killing eight and wounding 14.
April
- 4 April
- Heavy rain caused the crash of a EMBRAER Super Tucano near Boa Vista International Airport, the pilot, Fernando Wilmers de Medeiros, did not survive. 3 other Super Tucanos from the same squad were able to make an emergency landing.[130]
- 12 April
- An unarmed Panavia Tornado ECR of the German Air Force crashed into a rock face 46°33′01″N 7°55′26″E / 46.550328°N 7.923805°E near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, killing the pilot. The weapons system officer ejected and was rescued from the rock face, severely injured, by a local helicopter rescue team. The crash occurred minutes after refueling in Emmen during an authorized navigation training in the Swiss Alps while returning to Germany from a long-distance flight to Corsica, France.[131][132][133]
- 21 April
- Main article:McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, BuNo 162437, crashed into a residential neighborhood while performing at an airshow in Beaufort, South Carolina, in the United States, killing the pilot. Military investigators blamed the pilot for his fatal crash. A report obtained by The Associated Press said that Lieutenant Commander Kevin Davis got disoriented and crashed after not properly tensing his abdominal muscles to counter the gravitational forces of a high-speed turn.[134]
- 27 April
- Main article:Battle of Shatoy and killed the crew and 17 spetsnaz(Russian special forces) soldiers on board.
May
- 1 May
- A Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force) crashed at 1110 hrs. at Morón Air Base after making a low pass during a "baptism of fire" day celebration, observing the opening of combat in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. The pilot, Lt. Marcos Peretti, apparently encountered a fogbank after making the pass. He did not eject after steering the aircraft away from populated areas and was killed. Defence Minister Nilda Garré, who presided over the main celebration, ordered all Mirage aircraft grounded until a full investigation into the accident had been completed. "The causes of the accident are under investigation", said minister Garré adding that "Mirages are grounded until we determine how the accident happened; the pilot was in contact until a minute before the accident".[135]
- 6 May
- A French Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter transporting Multinational Force and Observers crashed into a truck while making an emergency landing near El-Thamad, Egyptkilling all nine people on board.
- 11 May
- A Taiwan. The two crew members were killed, as well as two soldiers of the Singapore Army undergoing training at the base. Another nine Singapore Army soldiers were injured, one dying of his injuries 17 days later.[136][137]
- 24 May
- A
June
- 13 June
- A Mongolian People's Army Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashed in Selenge Province, Mongolia while en route to a forest fire killing 15 of the 22 people on board.
July
- 30 July
- FA-18C from VFA-195 crashed after the pilot inadvertently ejected while on emergency night approach to USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The aircraft continued to fly for nearly 20 minutes before crashing into the sea 400 miles SE of Guam. The pilot was safely recovered.
August
- 5 August
- An microburst. The aircraft cartwheeled upon impact, and hit its nose, wing and tail before coming to a stop upside down. The cockpit slid open and the plane's engine got dislodged upon impact. The cartwheel led to a loss of momentum which probably saved the crew's lives. The two crew members, Mark Brincat and Kevin Borg, had minor injuries only and were treated for shock at St. Luke's Hospital after being airlifted.[139][140][141][142]
- 8 August
- A Aérospatiale-Westland Puma HC.1, ZA934, 'BZ', of 33 Squadron, crashed in a wooded area of Hudswell Grange, W of Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, UK. Two RAF crew, pilot and aircraft commander Flt. Lt. David Oxer Hanson Sale, and crewman Sgt. Phillip Anthony "Taff" Burfoot died in the crash, while Army Pvt. Sean Tait, Royal Regiment of Scotland, died two days later in hospital. Nine others were injured but survived.
- 15 August
- Lts. Ryan Betton, Cameron Hall and Jerry Smith were killed when their
- 30 August
- A Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, where the unguarded aircraft sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Officers responsible for the security lapse at Minot were disciplined.
September
- 7 September
- A Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low IV, 69-05794, of the 20th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, crashed near Duke Field, Eglin Auxiliary Field 3; two were injured.[146]
November
- 7 November
- A IAR-330 Puma SOCAT crashed in Argeș County, Romania, killing all three crew members on board.
- 8 November
- A Piave River, killing all seven on board, a mixed crew of Army and Air Force personnel. KWF are Air Force Capt. Cartize Durnham, Staff Sgt. Robert Rogers, Staff Sgt. Mark Spence, Senior Airman Kenneth Hauprich, Army Capt. Christian Skoglund and Chief Warrant Officer Two Davidangelo Alvarez. One year later, on the anniversary of the accident, members of the Aviano Air Base and Santa Lucia di Piave communities joined to unveil a special memorial honoring those U.S. military members who died in the crash and to remember those Italian World War I heroes of Piave.[147][148]
December
- 6 December
- A French Air Force twin-seat Dassault Rafaleaircraft with a single occupant, on a training flight from the Saint-Dizier base, crashed in an uninhabited part of the Neuvic parish in the Corrèze area, with the loss of its pilot.
2008
January
- 6 January
- A USS Harry S Truman. One pilot ejected and was recovered.
- 12 January
- Main article:Republic of Macedonia, killing all 11 soldiers on board.[149]
- 15 January
- A
- 22 January
- A GIK Institute merely avoiding faculty buildings and blew up into pieces on crashing. The crash killed the pilot and a gardener. Raja Jahanzeb was posthumously awarded Tamgha-e-Basalat (Medal of Good Conduct).[152][153]
- 23 January
- Main article:
- 28 January
- A Lockheed Martin F-16B Block 20 MLU Fighting Falcon, 83-1171, crashed in Monte Real, Portugal while performing a test run after going through extensive maintenance. The pilot, Lt. Col. João 'Skipper' Pereira, safely ejected.[151]
February
- 1 February
- A United States Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle from the 199th Fighter Squadron, 154th Wing of the Hawaii Air National Guard flying on a routine training flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii. After losing control at low altitude simulating air-to-air combat the pilot ejected about 60 miles (97 km) south of the Honolulu International Airport and was rescued by a United States Coast Guard helicopter.[155]
- 13 February
- A VMA-542 crashed at the Open Ground Farms in Carteret County, North Carolina after pilot Capt Ian E. Stephenson failed to readjust his engine nozzles from the hover-stop position, making the aircraft incapable of staying in the air. He was able to safely eject.[156]
- 20 February
- Two CGAS Clearwater and also taken to the Eglin Hospital. One pilot subsequently died several hours later from his injuries.[157] An accident investigation released 25 August 2008 found that the accident was the result of pilot error and not mechanical failure. Both pilots failed to clear their flight paths and anticipate their impending high-aspect, midair impact, according to Brig. Gen. Joseph Reynes, Jr., Air Combat Command's inspector general who led the investigation.[158]This was the first crash involving an Eglin F-15 since a fatal crash on 30 April 2002.
89-0127, Guam - 23 February
- Main article: . Both pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed; the aircraft was destroyed. Moisture in flight sensors caused steep pitch-up and stall to port.
March
- 3 March
- An Baiji, Iraq, killing seven members of the IAF, as well as SSgt. Christopher S. Frost, 24, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a USAF public affairs specialist who deployed to the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq from the 377th Air Base Wing at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.[159]
- 7 March
- Failure of a brake metering valve caused a Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota from the Singapore Air Show and had taken off for home but returned after the crew declared an in-flight emergency. The aircraft stopped at designated spot off the runway to be met by emergency apparatus, but rolled into the vehicles unexpectedly.[161]
- 14 March
- A Luke AFB, Arizona since November 2007 as a student pilot. He had 237 total flying hours, ~26 in the F-16.[162]
April
- 4 April
- A Rockwell B-1B Lancer, 86-0116, of the 28th Bomb Wing, suffered hydraulic failure while taxiing after landing at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, veering off the runway and catching fire. Four crew evacuated safely but the airframe was burnt out after the bomb load exploded.[163]
- 8 April
- An Thanh Tri District, Hanoi, Vietnam, killing five military pilots. It had taken off from Gia Lam Airport, and crashed on its way back. The cause of the accident is unknown.[164]
May
- 21 May
- A
June
- 13 June
- Two F-5 Tigerejected safely and were rescued.
July
- 8 July
- Three Airmen of the 319th Special Operations Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing, avoided serious injury when the leased Pilatus PC-12 in which they were training crashed at the end of the runway at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Eglin Auxiliary Field 9, at ~2330 hrs. as they attempted a landing. The initial investigation finds that the turboprop encountered wake turbulence from another aircraft that had landed shortly before the accident. As a precaution, the three crew were taken to the Eglin hospital and released the same afternoon. Hurlburt leases the PC-12 to train Airmen for the U-28A, the Air Force's version of the single-engine utility aircraft, used in combat for intra-theatre support for the special operations forces.[166]
- 21 July
- A UTC), 15 minutes before the parade was scheduled to start. There were no survivors.
- 30 July
- A McDonnell-Douglas F-15D Eagle, 85-0131, crashed on the Nevada Test and Training Range ~50 miles (80 km) E of Goldfield, Nevada, at ~1130 hrs. The F-15D, of the 65th Aggressor Squadron, 57th Aggressor Training Group, Nellis Air Force Base, was participating in a combat training mission as part of Exercise Red Flag 08–03. Air Force officials identified the pilot who died as Lt. Col. Thomas A. Bouley, commander of the 65th AS at Nellis. A United Kingdom Royal Air Force Tornado F.3 pilot assigned to the USAF's 64th AGRS[169] was with him and was taken to Mike O'Callaghan Federal Hospital at Nellis. The pilot arrived ~1330 hrs. Wednesday, the Air Force said. The pilot was in stable condition and under observation. The Royal Air Force pilot's name was withheld while the investigation into the crash continues.[170][171]
August
- 25 August
- A Davao International Airport.[172]There were no survivors.
September
- 24 September
- A
October
- 1 October
- Two Dassault Super Etendards collided in mid-air and crashed into the English Channel off northeastern France. One pilot remained missing.[176]
- 9 October
- A Canadian Armed Forces Canadair CT-114 Tutor crashed into farmland just northwest of CFB Moose Jaw while taking photographs of a formation of Canadian Forces training aircraft, both crew killed.[177]
- 17 October
- The Russian Air Force grounded all its Mikoyan MiG-29s following a crash in Siberia on this date.[citation needed] The fighter came down 60 kilometers (37 mi) from the Domna airfield during a regular training flight. The pilot ejected safely.[citation needed]
- 20 October
- A AIDC F-CK-1B Ching-kuo fighter crashed into the Taiwan Straitduring a low-level bombing exercise. Two pilots were declared missing.
- 21 October
- A Sikorsky S-70C crashed five miles off the eastern coast of Hualien County. Of the five persons on board one was killed and two were declared missing.
- 23 October
- An Sikorsky HH-3F Pelicanhelicopter crashed in southern France. The eight persons onboard were killed.
December
- 5 December
- A at 0612 hrs. Moscow time, killing the pilot.
- 8 December
- Main article:MCAS Miramar, California, just after the Marine pilot, Lieutenant Dan Neubauer, from VMFAT-101,[178] ejected. Four fatalities on the ground resulted. The Hornet was being flown from the USS Abraham Lincoln.[179] The commander of the fighter squadron involved in the crash, its top maintenance officer and two others were relieved of duty as a result of the crash investigation. The pilot was grounded pending a further review, Maj. Gen. Randolph Alles announced in March 2009.[180]
2009
January
- 12 January
- A Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk, 91-26321,[181] of the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade,[182] Texas Army National Guard, crashed on the campus at Texas A&M Universityjust after take-off due to tail rotor failure, killing 2nd Lt. Zachary Cook - a 2008 Texas A&M graduate and member of the Texas A&M ROTC and Aggie Corps of Cadets - and injuring four other Army personnel. The helicopter was participating in the Rudder's Rangers Annual Winter Field Training.
C-17A Globemaster III, 06-0002, "Spirit of the Air Force", on Bagram Air Base runway after inadvertent night belly-landing in January 2009. - 15 January
- An Afghan National Army Air Corps Mil Mi-17 Hip Helicopter crashed in Herat Province in western Afghanistan. The incident occurred in bad weather and travelling at low-altitude in a mountainous region resulting in 13 fatalities including the Afghan General Fazaludin Sayar.[183]
- 17 January
- A FS Foudre and the accident occurred shortly after take-off resulting in 2 injured and 8 fatalities from the 13e Régiment de Dragons Parachutistes and the Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre.[184]
- 20 January
- Two Spanish Air Force Dassault Mirage F1on a training flight, collided in midair. The three pilots were found dead in the debris of the airplanes.
- 21 January
- An HJT-16 Kiran Mk.2 military trainer aircraft from the No. 52 Squadron Surya Kiran (Sun Rays) Aerobatics display team based at the Bidar Air Force Station in Karnataka, India crashed into a field during a routine training exercise, killing the pilot.[185]
- 26 January
- A
- 30 January
- The pilots of a Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan after dark. None of the six crew aboard was injured, but damages of $19 million were sustained by the airframe. The pilots were grounded pending a command review of the accident, an Air Mobility Command spokesman said. The automated ground proximity warning system was apparently accidentally turned off.[187]This is the first belly-landing of a C-17 in sixteen years of operation.
February
- 9 February
- A leased Craig Field (Alabama) at Selma, Alabama (formerly Craig Air Force Base) whilst performing simulated engine failure approach, breaking off the nosewheel and causing severe damage to the nosewheel strut assembly, propeller and main undercarriage doors. A board of officers will investigate the 1415 hrs. incident in which there were no injuries.[188] This accident has been classified as a Class A accident, indicating that fairly substantial damage was incurred.[189] Aircraft repaired and reported flying again by 29 April 2009.[190]
- 9 February
- A BAE Systems Harrier T.10 (ZH656) on a routine training exercise from No. 20 Squadron (R) Operational conversion unit based at RAF Wittering crashed on the runway at Royal Air Force Station Akrotiri, Cyprus. The 2 crew members ejected safely from the aircraft which was damaged in its post-crash fire.[191]
- 11 February
- Two RAF St Athan shortly before. Among the dead were two female teenage cousins and two instructor pilots.[192]
- 18 February
- A Fuerza Aérea Colombiana Basler BT-67 (Colombian Air force designation: AC-47T) intelligence-gathering aircraft of the Escuadrón de Combate Táctico 113 Avion Fantasma (ghost aircraft) crashed near the Comando Aéreo de Combate No 1 Airbase at Puerto Salgar, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The aircraft was on a training flight resulting in 5 crew fatalities.[193]
- 27 February
- A Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province, Poland. The aircraft from the 49 Regiment combat helicopters Pruszcz Gdański was on a night training flight for service in Afghanistan resulting in 2 crew injured and 1 fatality.[194]
March
- 19 March
- An Aviación del Ejército Ecuatoriana (Ecuadorian Army Aviation) Beechcraft military aircraft crashed into an apartment building in Quito, Ecuador, killing five on board and two on the ground.[195][196]
- 23 March
- A Jagdbombergeschwader 33 crashed on the runway at Büchel Air Force Base, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The aircraft, on a routine night training exercise, suffered extensive damage during the incident which occurred in high winds and rain. The two crew members ejected safely.[197]
- 25 March
- A Lockheed Martin Corp., the aircraft's principal contractor, in 2003. Cooley, of Palmdale, was killed while flying and pronounced dead at Victor Valley Community Hospital in Victorville, California.[200] An Air Force investigation finds that the accident occurred after the pilot lost consciousness in a high-gravity maneuver. The reports stated that during the third test of the mission the pilot appeared to have been subjected to increased physiological stress and his lack of awareness delayed a recovery maneuver.[201] At 7,486 ft MSL, the pilot initiated ejection outside of the seat design envelope and immediately sustained fatal injuries.[198][202]
- 31 March
- A
April
- 2 April
- A F/A-18 Hornet crashed in northern Spain. The pilot ejected safely.[204]
- 6 April
- An The aircraft reportedly crashed into a hangar during its landing procedure and killed all on board. The casualties include: 6 crew, an instructor and 17 special forces trainee personnel.
- 7 April
- A Philippine Air Force Bell 412 helicopter crashed in bad weather in a heavily forested area at Mount Mangingihe, Sitio Tawangan, Kabayan, Benguet, Philippines. The helicopter was travelling from Loakan Airport to Ifugao in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon when it crashed killing the 3 crew and 5 government officials.[206]
- 10 April
- A Kenyan Airforce Harbin Y-12 crashed into a hillside on approaching an airstrip near Marsabit, Eastern Province, Kenya killing 14 personnel.[207]
- 14 April
- A Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon from the 9th Air Wing flying from Balıkesir Airport on a routine night exercise crashed near the village of Muradiye Sarnıç, Balıkesir Province, Turkey killing the pilot.[208]
- 26 April
- The third flying prototype of the Dzemgi Airport near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Aircraft apparently ran off end of runway, hits obstacle, burns, destroying it. Test pilot Eugene Frolov ejected safely and was unhurt. This was actually the fourth prototype, but 03 served purely for ground testing.[209]
- 30 April
- An Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI crashed in the Pokhran region of Rajasthan after it took off from Pune during its routine sortie, killing one of its two pilots. This was the first crash of the Su-30MKI since its induction in the IAF.
May
- 3 May
- A Venezuelan Army Mil Mi-17 Hip helicopter crashed on a border patrol with Colombia with 17 fatalities including the Venezuelan General Domingo Faneite. The accident occurred near the town of El Alto de Rubio, in Táchira state, Venezuela.[210][211]
- 4 May
- A Russian Navy Kamov Kamov Ka-27 (Helix) Helicopter landing on the Baltic Fleet Frigate Yaroslav Mudryi, the main-rotor made contact with the ship superstructure, crashed on the deck and then rolled over the side into the sea. The 5 crew from the Kamov helicopter were successfully rescued from the sea.[212]
- 5 May
- A United States Marine Corps MCAS Miramar, California, crashed at 1154 hrs. PST into the Cleveland National Forest, California, killing both pilots.[213]
- 12 May
- A Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The aircraft from No. 17 Squadron SAAF was travelling from Durban International Airport to a satellite base of the 87 Helicopter Flying School SAAF at Dragon's Peak, Drakensberg for a week-long training exercise. Flying with two another aircraft at low level and at high speed over the surface of the Dam, the helicopter struck the water and crashed, then sinking into the lake and killing the 3 crew.[214]
- 14 May
- A BAE Systems Harrier GR9 (ZG478) from No. 1 Squadron based at RAF Cottesmore made a heavy landing at Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan due to an engine failure, forcing the pilot to successfully eject from the aircraft.[citation needed]
- 15 May
- An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-27 Flogger crashed shortly after take-off and the pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft. The accident occurred near the Konkani village, Jodhpur, India and resulted in injuries to 7 local villagers.[215]
- 15 May
- A Dassault Mirage 5COAM (FAC-3031) on a routine training flight from the Comando Aéreo de Combate No. 1, crashed shortly after take-off from the Palanquero airbase, Puerto Salgar, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. The aircraft from the Escuadrón de Combate 112 suffered a technical fault, causing a fire which forced the pilot to eject from the aircraft, without him incurring injury.[216]
- 19 May
- A Point Loma, California, killing all 5 members of its crew. Only 3 bodies were recovered.[217]
- 20 May
- Indonesian Air Force Lockheed L-100 Hercules A-1325 crashed into the village of Geplak, near Madiun, East Java, killing at least 98 people.[218]
- 21 May
- A California City.[219]
- 26 May
- A Força Aérea Brasileira Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante (C-95) FAB 2332; a twin-engined turboprop transport made a heavy landing at Base Aérea do Campo dos Afonsos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The accident occurred when the landing gear failed to operate.[220]
- 28 May
- A Van's Aircraft RV-6A Air Beetlecrashed near Kaduna, Nigeria on a training flight, both occupants killed.
June
- 2 June
- A
- 4 June
- A Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon, 93-1059, '059',[222] of the 347 Fighter Squadron based at Nea Anchialos Airforce Base crashed near the village of Michalitsi part of the Tzoumerka National Park, Ioannina, Greece. The aircraft, flying with another F-16 from the 111th Combat Wing, suffered a bird strike, and engine failure forced the pilot to eject; he survived uninjured.[223]
- 8 June
- An Indonesian Army locally-built MBB Bo 105 crashed while flying in bad weather near to Situhaing village on West Java, killing all five occupants.[224]
- 9 June
- An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 Cline transport aircraft crashed near a village in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh killing 13 defence personnel. The aircraft crashed over the Rinchi Hill above Heyo village, about 30 km from Mechuka advance landing ground in the district located about 60 km from the Indo-Chinese Line of Actual Control. Among the seven IAF men and six Army personnel on board the ill-fated aircraft were two wing commanders, two squadron leaders and a flight lieutenant.[225]
- 9 June
- A Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnam killing the pilot. The aircraft from the 923rd Fighter Regiment was on a routine training flight and suffered mechanical failure.[citation needed]
- 12 June
- An Bogor, West Javaduring a test flight following maintenance of the helicopter, all four occupants killed.
- 14 June
- A Royal Air Force Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, killing a reservist pilot and an Air Training Corps cadet. The glider pilot parachuted to safety.[226]
- 16 June
- Two McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornets collided in midair near the Canary Islands, Spain. Both pilots ejected safely.[227]
- 17 June
- A Sukhoi Su-24MR Fencer crashed on landing at the Monchegorsk Airforce Base, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The aircraft from the 98th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment suffered a heavy landing forcing the 2 crew to eject safely.[228]
- 18 June
- An
- 19 June
- A Sukhoi Su-24MR Fencer crashed near the village of Kostino-Bystrianská, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia. The aircraft from the 1st Composite Air Division, North Caucasus Military District suffered a mechanical fault forcing the 2 crew to eject safely after several aborted landings. The Russian Airforce fleet of Sukhoi Su-24 was grounded for technical inspection after 2 accidents in a week.[228]
- 22 June
- A Bell TH-67 Creekcrashed near Hartfield, Alabama on a training mission, one of the two occupants killed.
- 22 June
- A Lockheed Martin F-16CM Fighting Falcon, 89-2108, from the 421st Fighter Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, based at Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah crashed on a night training flight on the Utah Test and Training Range. The pilot, Capt. George B. Houghton, died in the crash which occurred 35 miles (56 km) S of Wendover, Utah.[230]
July
- 2 July
- A Royal Air Force Arrochar, Scotland. The aircraft was on a routine training flight from No. 43 Squadron RAF Leuchars in Fife resulting in 2 crew killed in the accident. The crew were pilot Kenneth Thompson and weapons systems officer Nigel Morton.[231]
- 3 July
- A Dassault Aviation Mirage III from Grupo 6 de Caza based at Tandil Airport, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina crashed into open countryside near Benito Juárez and the pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft.[232]
- 3 July
- A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashed at Chapar Feroze Khel near Peshawar, Pakistan due to a technical fault resulting in 26 fatalities.[233]
- 3 July
- A
- 7 July
- A MiG-29 crashed while performing aerobatic manoeuvres in preparation for an upcoming airshow, killing the pilot Lt. Col. Rade Randjelovic and a soldier on the ground, while injuring another.[235]
- 15 July
- A Northrop F-5F (5410) from the 7th Tactical Fighter Group based at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base crashed on a routine training flight of the coast of Penghu, Taiwan killing the 2 crew.[236]
- 16 July
- A
- 17 July
A
Cessna T206H (FAV-2807) flying from Puerto Ayacucho to La Esmeralda, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela crashed into the hillside of El Duida, 20 miles (32 km) from its destination at La Esmeralda airport, killing the 3 crew members.[238]- 18 July
- A
- 19 July
- A Xian JH-7 (FBC-1 Flying Leopard) crashed near the Taonan tactical training base in Jilin province while on a joint counter-terrorism exercises with Russia resulting in the death of 2 crew.[240]
- 20 July
A
Panavia Tornado GR.4 operating with RAF No. 1 Squadron crashed on take-off at Kandahār International Airport in Afghanistan and the two crew members successfully eject from the aircraft.[241]- 20 July
- A Extra 300Laerobatic aircraft crashed 15 km south of Santiago, Chile. The pilot was seriously injured.
- 20 July
- An IAI Kfir jet fighter crashed near the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The Israeli pilots operating the aircraft were unharmed in the incident, but the jet itself was destroyed. Israel Aerospace Industries said in a statement that the aircraft was flying a refresher flight, and that the aircraft did not come to a stop on the landing strip, landing outside it. The director of the Israel Aerospace Industries announced that an investigation into the incident had already begun and that a panel to probe the crash had been appointed.[242][243]
- 21 July
- A Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Virginia, United States; minor injuries only.
- 23 July
- A
- 23 July
- An Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan killing the 2 crew.[245]
- 31 July
- An Indian Air Force HAL HPT-32 Deepak a prop-driven primary military trainer crashes in the Medak district of the Andhra Pradesh state killing the 2 crew.[246]
August
- 5 August
- A Chengdu FT-7 crashed near Attock, northwest Pakistan, killing the pilot.
- 6 August
- A Saab JAS 39 Gripen C from Blekinge Wing (F 17) suffered a heavy landing at Ronneby Airport, Sweden caused by the failure of the under-carriage to operate after a fire alarm was trigged and the pilot was uninjured in the incident.[247]
- 16 August
- Two Zhukovsky Airfield, outside of Moscow.[248]
- 16 August
- An Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Bell 214ST crashed on a training flight near Karaj, Iran, four killed.
- 19 August
- A 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). The accident occurred 400 ft below the summit of the 14,421 feet high (4,268 m) Mount Massive in the Sawatch Range, Colorado leaving 2 crew dead, 1 injured and 1 crew member missing.[249]
- 21 August
- An Lt. Cdr. Saurav Saxena.[250]
- 27 August
- A Kefalonia, Greece resulting in the death of the pilot.[251]
Fire damaged USAF E-3C, 83-0008, on Nellis AFB, Nevada, ramp. - 28 August
- A 552d Air Control Wing from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, made a forced landing at Nellis Air Force Base. Due to a fire the aircraft was damaged and the crew of 32 were safely evacuated and the fire extinguished by Nellis AFB emergency response crew.[252]
- 30 August
- A Belarusian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker was lost during Radom Airshow 2009, Poland. The aircraft crashed near the Małęczyn village, outside the military air base the event took place on. No civilian was injured. There was no damage reported on the ground. The crew of two did not eject and were found dead by the rescue teams.[253]
September
- 7 September
- An Government Aircraft Factories Nomad P837 on a routine flight crashed near a local village of Sekatak Matadau, Bulungan district in East Kalimantan killing 4 of the 9 passengers and crew.[254]
- 10 September
- A Cazorla Natural Park, near Jaén, Spain, while in a training flight. The pilot ejected and suffered minor injuries.[255]
- 10 September
- An Bell 406 Helicopter on a routine patrol crashed near the 27 kilometre post on the Perote-Los Humeros Highway, Veracruz State, Mexico, resulting in 2 crew injured and 3 fatalities.[256]
- 12 September
- An Punjab Provence, Pakistan killing the pilot.[257]
- 13 September
- An Assaf Ramon (the son of Colonel Ilan Ramon who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003), suffered either loss of consciousness or mechanical failure leading to the crash.[258]
- 17 September
- An FFA AS-202 Bravo on a routine training flight crashed into a rice field in Sragen, Central Java killing the pilot.[259]
- 19 September
- A
- 22 September
