'Surya Kiran' (Rays of the Sun) aerobatics team (SKAT) Losses & EJECTEES
Date
Air Force
A'cft
Unit / Serial
based
crashed
crew
photo
seat
Saturday 18th March 2006
09:30h
Conflicting
early reports-
Three plane
formation practising formation flight
possibly the tail
of one plane hit another during the practice.
OR
Control loss at high speed and low altitude while avoiding college building. Crashed into a toor dal
field in Naubad on the outskirts of Bidar, in north Karnataka about 700 km
from Bangalore
Awaiting
further confirmation of events.
via Jagan
Wing Commander
Dheeraj Bhatia.
unsuccessful attempt to eject at low
level,- died in crash
Martin-Baker
IAF
Kiran Mk II
????
'Surya Kiran' (Rays of the Sun) aerobatics team
Squadron Leader Shailendra
Singh unsuccessful attempt to eject at
low level, less than 100 feet - died in crash
Martin-Baker
Wednesday 6th August 2008
IAF
HAL HJT-16 Kiran Mk II
'Surya Kiran' (Rays of the Sun) aerobatics team (SKAT)
Bidar Air Force Base
No aircraft was lost. One crew member
suffered a heart attack when the aircraft had landed
Martin-Baker
Wing Commander
Dhaliwal
Squadron Leader Vikas Sharma (34) suffered a heart attack on landing . He
died of a massive cardiac arrest on the way to the Air Force Medical Centre
Martin-Baker
Saturday 22nd December 2007
11.50 a.m
Indian A. F.
HJT-16 Kiran
Trainer
Surya Kiran
Kalaikunda airbase
Crashed during take off after
refueling at Bhubaneswar Airport on way to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh
pilot Wing Commander Rajat Tyagi quickly
ejected himself"
It is
believed that the pilot was able to get out by himself without using the
ejection seat
Martin-Baker
Wednesday 21st January 2009
08.45
IAF
HAL HJT-16 Kiran Mk II
'Surya Kiran' (Rays of the Sun) aerobatics team (SKAT)
Bidar air force base
Crashed during a
training session in Bidar,
Karnataka
