Rafale

Date	Air Force	A'cft	Unit / Serial	based	crashed	crew	photo	seat

January 2007	Marine	Rafale M		12F	damaged			Martin-Baker Mk F16F

Thursday 6th December 2007 18:20h	l’Armée de l’air	Rafale B	316 / 7-HL	EC 01.007 "Provence", based in Saint-Dizier (BA 113)	photo Stéphane Pichard http://stanakshot.free.fr Rafale B 316 / 7-HL
					The aircraft suddenly dived from 4000 m and crashed in the ground near Neuvic (Corrèze)	capitaine Emmanuel "Bouba" MORIUSER did not eject LINK		Martin-Baker Mk F16F

Thursday 22nd May 2008	Marine	Dassault Rafale		12F Lann-Bihoue	Aircraft veered off the end of a runway at the Lann-Bihoue military base in Brittany	Pilot ejected		SEMMB [Martin-Baker] Mk.F16F

Thursday 24th September 2009 16:09 GMT	Fr. Navy	Rafale F3	M22	flottille 12F Charles de Gaulle	Believed to have collided while carrying out tests of catapults and arresting gear for the new standard-Navy Rafale F3	Lieutenant Commander Yann Beaufils [40] ejected		SEMMB [Martin-Baker] Mk.F16F
						["le capitaine de corvette"] [Naval Officer assigned to the test flights recovered and taken to the medical facilities on the carrier. Suffered bruising
Thursday 24th September 2009 16:09 GMT	Fr. Navy	Rafale F3	M25	flottille 12F Charles de Gaulle		Commander François Duflot [45] Missing Search called off on 28th September. Pilot's body recovered on Monday 5th October 2009 There was NO ejection		Martin-Baker Mk F16F
						["Le capitaine de frégate"] [working for the General Delegation for Armaments]
	Both aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about 30 kilometres from Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), southwest France while returning to the aircraft carrier after a test flight One of the pilots was from the Centre d'essais en vol (CEV-DGA), the other from CEPA (Centre d'expérimentations pratiques de l'aéronavale) and not the 12F
FEEDBACK	The flight recorder (called ESPAR on the Rafale) of the M25 was recovered Saturday 24th, at a depth of around 700 m (2300ft).

Sunday 28th November 2010	French Navy	Rafale F. 3 M	M18	12F de Landivisiau Charles de Gaulle, stationed in the Arabian Sea supporting the fight in Afghanistan	Crashed into waters more than 100km off the coast of Pakistan during refuelling	Pilot ejected		SEMMB [Martin-Baker] Mk.F16F

Monday 2nd July 2012 14:04	French Navy	Rafale M	M24	12F de BAN Landivisiau (Finistère) aboard Charles de Gaulle	Crashed during air combat training session with an F-18 fighter from the American USS Eisenhower 130km east of Cartagena (Spain) off the Spanish Mediterranean coast.	Pilot ejected rescued from water by American Helicopter		SEMMB [Martin-Baker] Mk.F16F