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Aircraft by type
MiG-23
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Aircraft by type |
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MiG-23 |
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List being compiled - any addition / amendments welcomed |
| Date |
Air Force |
A'cft | Unit / Serial |
based |
crashed | crew | photo | seat |
| 1st November 1988 |
 Indian A. F. |
MiG-23UM | Bhatinda Village Pt BO | KM-1 | ||||
| 17th May 1989 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23 | Bodakdev Vill Ahmedabad | Sqn Ldr Pradeep Singh | KM-1 | |||
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Date needed 1991 |
 Iraqi A Force |
MiG-23 | Gulf War - intercepted by two F-16 aircraft and instructed to eject or be shot down | Salam Shalaam ejected |
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KM-1 | ||
| 4th July 1989 |
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KM-1 | ||||||
 Soviet Air Force |
MiG-23 | Training flightEngine Problems - pilot ejected. After the ejection the aircraft continued to fly through East Germany, then West Germany. After 900 km the MiG-23 ran out of fuel and crashed onto a house killed an 18 year old male occupant in the area of Kortrijk city in north west Belgium | ||||||
| Soviet airbase, Kohlberg, Poland |
Col. Nikolai Skurigin ejected over Poland and landed safely
with his parachute "''If I could have foreseen such tragic consequences to this pilotless flight, I would have stayed in the plane to the end.'' |
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| ?? July 1991 |
 Soviet Air Force |
Mikoyan MiG-23 Flogger | Flame-out at 13,000ft, crashed near Yaroslavl, north of Moscow | Victor Aleshin, ejected safely at 3,000ft | KM-1 | |||
| 3rd April 1992 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | 221 Sqdn | Engine flame out after firing of cannon. Pukdari Vill Pali dist Jodhpr AFS pt bo | Sqn Ldr Dhananjay Khote | KM-1 | ||
| 10th September 1992 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23 | Atti vill julundur Adampur AFS | Fg Offr V S Dagar | KM-1 | |||
| 20th March 1993 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23 | Aircraft Canopy detached in flight.Charaj ka dani Jodhpur AFS | Flt Lt V S Rawat | KM-1 | |||
| 8th September 1993 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | Cr near Halwara, Ludhiana | Sqn LdrRavindranath Rajagopal* | KM-1 | |||
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2nd March 1994 1454 hrs |
Russian AF |
MiG-23 Flogger |
engine fail on the outskirts of Kursk,
280 miles south of Moscowure - fatality on ground where aircraft crashed |
Pilot ejected safely |
KM-1 | |||
| 10th March 1994 |
 Romanian AF |
MiG-23U Flogger-C | 135 | 93 Regiment |
engine failure at low-level 8 km from Timisoara military airport |
Pilot ejected | KM-1 | |
| Other crew member ejected | KM-1 | |||||||
| 4th August 1994 |
Russian AF |
MiG-23 Flogger | crashed near Rakovski, Bulgaria | Pilot ejected | KM-1 | |||
| 9th August 1994 |
Romanian Air Force |
MiG-23 Flogger | 01941 |
crashed 4 km from the Mihail
Kogalniceanu Airport |
pilot ejected safely | KM-1 | ||
| 13th September 1995 1830h |
 Hungarian AF |
MiG-23UB Flogger | 14' |
Papa Air Base |
Su-22M3 Fitter '16' c/n 51813 from Taszar collided with MiG-23 near Somogymeggyes southwest Hungary | Katovics Balázs killed | canopy damage to MiG-23 prevented ejection - both crew died | |
| Mizsei Mihály killed | ||||||||
| 26th December 1995 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | The two MiGs crashed in Hoshiarpur District. The Collision occurred over Painsra Village nearl Malhapur Police station | pilot ejected | KM-1 | |||
| 26th December 1995 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23UM | The two MiGs crashed in Hoshiarpur District. The Collision occurred over Painsra Village nearl Malhapur Police station | pilot ejected | KM-1 | |||
| pilot ejected | KM-1 | |||||||
| 5th June 1996 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23 | unspecified technical fault and began to lose height on the outskirts of Jodhpur Cr Outskirts of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. | pilot ejected safely | KM-1 | |||
| 9th March 1997 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23MF | 33km from Halwara Human Error | KM-1 | ||||
| 8th May 1997 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23MF | 26km from Halwara Tech Defect | KM-1 | ||||
| 9th October 1997 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | 220 Sqdn | 32km from Halwara | KM-1 | |||
| 1st October 1998 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | 220 Sqdn | Cr after TO from Halwara | Flt Lt Augustine | KM-1 | ||
| 2nd February 1999 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | 220 Sqdn | TO fr Halwara , Cr Samana Sub Division | Fg Offr T R Sahu suffered only minor injuries after getting stuck in a eucalyptus tree after he ejected from the plane | KM-1 | ||
| 26th March 1999 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | Cr Halwara TD | KM-1 | ||||
| 25th March 2000 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23UM | Cr Kargil Sector, | ejected | KM-1 | |||
| ejected | KM-1 | |||||||
| 25th April 2000 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | Bhirdhar vill,Patiala Dist, 0810 Hrs | Flt Lt M Raj Kumar* | KM-1 | |||
| 10th May 2000 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23 | Aitiyan vill, TO fm Halwara 2km | Sqn Ldr S S Dalal | KM-1 | |||
| 12th March 2001 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | SM-261 | TO Halwara Cr Sangrur Dist | Sqn Ldr M Vishwas | KM-1 | ||
| 5th July 2001 |
Indian A. F. |
MIG-23UM | Cr Thumbali Dani Vill Jodhpur | Sqn Ldr Gaikwad | ||||
| F/O P P Hudda | ||||||||
| 28 August 2001 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | HE(A) RSQ | KM-1 | ||||
| 21st February 2002 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | Pathankot Rs 4.6 Cr Loss | KM-1 | ||||
| 15th March 2002 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23MF | Cr at Uttarlai - Bayatu and Sindhari villages | Rakesh Sharma | KM-1 | |||
| 26th June 2002 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | TO from Halwara | Flt Lt Bharat Kumar | KM-1 | |||
| 4th April 2003 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN |
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Flt Lt Balwinder Singh Gill | KM-1 | |||
| Cr in Ludhiana 4 k on ground TO Halwara | ||||||||
| 7th July 2003 |
Indian A. F. |
MiG-23BN | Cr 1128 - from Halwara - Mianwala Kalai | Flt Lt Nikhil Gupta ejected out safely sustained minor bruises. | KM-1 | |||
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Thursday 21st July 2005 16:00h |
 Angolan Air Force |
MiG-23MF Flogger |
C-424 | Lubango, | Lubango, Huíla province | Major Aniceto Tomás António Cardoso ejected, minor injuries | KM-1 | |
Many More Ejections have been reported - Can anyone help fill the gaps
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P. V. S. Jagan Mohan |
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