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January 

Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
                 
Tuesday 9th January
2007About 3:30,

PRC
Navy or PLAAF
Probably fighter or trainer.Jet   Cheng Hai
AB, Shan Tou City, Guang Dong Province
military aircraft exploded while airborne and crashed into a hill near Jiexi city in southern China One pilot killed - did not eject    
Chinese media Reports pilot escaped by parachute damaged by debris or
fire), wounded (reportedly cracked ribs or lightly burnt), and taken to Nan
Shan Town clinic, then Jie Yang City hospital
JALI
Thursday 18th January 2007
1:30pm

USAF
T-38C Talon
trainer

[see also Martin-Baker News Release]

  Columbus Air Force Base

NEWS LINK

 Low-level training exercise. Crashed about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tenn in a swampy area, western Panola County Pilot Maj. Bill Lester ejected safely photo ?? Northrop
Trainee Pilot 2nd Lt. Todd Campbell ejected safely photo ?? Northrop
Friday 19th January 2007
11:26 am

USAF
F-16 fighter 84-1279
144th Fighter Wing
California Air National Guard
Possible engine failure during a training exercise crashed in the Owens Lake Area near the town of Bartlett, located about 200 miles north of Los Angeles Pilot ejected

name ???

photo ??? ACES II
Wednesday 31st January 2007  
Pakistan Air Force
Mirage III   Rafiqui airbase Technical problem. During night flying, Landing Gears could not be lowered both by normal as
well as emergency method.
Crashed in Katcha Dhappra fields, near Machiwal, in Jhang district. No ground casualties reported
 Flt Lt Talha Saeed - Ejected safely photo ??? Martin-Baker PRM4-1
February  
Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
Wednesday 7th February 2007
Pakistan Air Force
Mirage 5   PAF Base Minhas Technical problems during training flight. crashed in the eastern province of Punjab, near Jhang, a city about 290 kilometers (180 miles) southwest of the capital,
Islamabad
[SOURCE: Pakistan Media]
Squadron Leader Ishtiaq ejected safely   Martin-Baker PRM4-1
Wednesday 7th February 2007
Pakistan Air Force
Chengu F-7P   PAF Base Minhas The aircraft developed engine trouble close to parent base, while coming in for landing, engine flamed out. pilot  Sqn Ldr Imran ejected safely   Martin-Baker PK10LZ
Tuesday 13th February 2007
11:00

South Korean AF
KF-16C 93-4053
KC-33
155th Fighter Squadron at Jungweon AB, South Korea During a training flight crashed  into the West Sea near a shooting range in Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province Air Force Pilot Wu ejected ACES II
This is the 4th loss of a Korean Air Force  KF-16 aircraft.  (August and September 1997 and in February 2002.)
Thursday 15th February 2007

Pakistan Air Force
Chengu F-7P   Masroor airbase Bird-Strike. Crashed within the perimeter of Masroor base in the southern port city of Karachi pilot Flt Lt Haseeb ejected safely   Martin-Baker PK10LZ
Thursday 22nd February 2007
12:45

U.S. Air Force
T-38C Talon  
12th Flying Training Wing
Randolph Air Force Base
Crashed  approximately 12 miles south of Hondo in Frio County Pilot-instructor Maj. Michael Pelletier ejected safely taken to Wilford Hall Medical Center for evaluation.   Northrop
see also Thursday 18th January 2007
 
Tuesday27th February 2007
13:22

HAF
Mirage 2000  
114 Wing
Tanagra air force base
Technical failure. crashed  near Mt Chtypas shortly after taking off about 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Athens

sources: Greek media, HAF Official press release

pilot ejected safely.
                          photo ept
Martin-Baker
March 
Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
Thursday 1st March 2007

Indian Air Force
MiG-21
Type-77
  Bagdogra airbase Proable bird strike (vulture) during routine sortie crashed in a hilly area in Darjeeling district, 640 kilometres north of state capital Kolkata, in the eastern state of West Bengal Squadron Leader Swapna Shankar Pandey killed

body of the pilot near the wreckage

  was ejection initiated ??
  One Indian media source is reporting that the pilot attempted ejection but the parachute did not have time to open
Monday 12th March 2007

USAF
AFRC
Block 30 F-16D
Fighting Falcon
87-0380
"FM"


93rd Fighter Squadron
“Florida Makos”
482nd Fighter Wing
Homestead Air Reserve Base
Crashed during a training mission  about 35 miles east of Marathon, into the waters off the Florida Keys

 

Pilot Maj. Timothy B. Piccin
[
93rd Fighter Squadron, Homestead Air Reserve Base]ejected safely and rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard
  ACES II
Monday 12th March 200 20:50h

USAF
Block 52 F-16C Fighting Falcon 91-0386
16th Weapons Squadron
U.S. Air Force Weapons School
Nellis Air Force Base
crashed on the southern Nevada Test and Training Range, near the end of the runway, while on approach to the Tonopah Test Range Airfield.

[USAF Public Relations Link]

Pilot Instructor Major
David Epperson ejected safely
  ACES II

Tuesday 13th March 2007

Pakistan Air Force
Chengdu FT-7PG   Air Base near Quetta Training crashed in south-western Pakistan. The aircraft was coming in for an emergency landing  when it went out of
control very close to ground at about 300 feet.
No ground casualties
 Flt Lt Osman Talha - ejected safely   Martin-Baker Mk.PK10LZ
Pilot Flt Lt Gulfam Soomro -  taken to a military hospital in Quetta but died later - had received fatal injuries no ejection

Tuesday 20th March 2007
3:19 p.m. (local time).

USMC
F/A-18C Hornet 164725  
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 323
"Death Rattlers"
Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
Crashed into the north Arabian Sea. The carrier was, its aircraft flying ground-attack missions over Afghanistan

"Carrier Strike Group is currently supporting Operation Enduring Freedom as well as conducting Maritime Security Operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations" - USN

pilot ejected   Martin-Baker NACES

Wednesday 21st March 2007
afternoon

Russian A.F.
MiG-29 Fulcrum   Dalmatinka Air Garrison, Millerovo
 

Can anyone confirm that the aircraft were from the 19th Fighter Aviation Regiment

  ???

On third day of training exercises, collided  near the Millerovo,  on the edge of Maryevka village, airfield 220 kilometers (130 miles) north of the regional center, Rostov-on-Don, in  the Rostov Region in southern Russia. Both pilots were recovered by  Mi-8 rescue helicopters and taken to a military hospital at the Millerovo
airfield.
  K-36
Wednesday 21st March 2007
afternoon

Russian A.F.
MiG-29 Fulcrum   Major Denis Chirkin ejected, sustained minor facial lacerations, landed near  Dyagtevo village Lieutenant Colonel Fakhradin Ulfanov ejected, sustained minor facial lacerations and lost some teeth, landed seven km away from Major Chirkin K-36
28th March 2007
20:00

PLAAF
JJ-7
[JianJiao-7] ?
    crashed into a farm, in a village in or near Tang Shan, He Bei
Province, China
    Jali
ejected ejected Jali
                 
April 
Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
                 
 


Wednesday 4th April 2007
before 9 o'clock


CAF
CT-156 Raytheon Harvard II
                                                                                         CAF Official
CT-156 Raytheon Harvard II similar to this was involved in the mishap
    Pilot - remained in aircraft    
15 Wing Moose Jaw Both crew taken to Moose Jaw Union Hospital with minor injuries. Student pilot ejected
"Inadvertent Ejection"
  Martin Baker Mk US16LA zero/zero

Thursday
5th April 2007
0850 hrs (IST)

Indian Navy
Sea Harrier Mk.60     crashed near Dabholim airport off Goa coast into the Arabian Sea Commander Vikram Menon, Ejected - rescued

[2nd ejection - see also 25th May 2001]

Martin-Baker
Lt Commander Saurabh Tiwary, Ejected - His body was recovered nine days after the crash   Martin-Baker
Thursday
5th April 2007
 0820 GMT

[see also Wednesday 6th December 2006]


French Air Force
Mirage F.1CT 259
30-QZ
                             ©photo: copyright Stéphane Pichard "stanak" used with permission
Stanak Website Link
Martin-Baker
crashed during a reconnaissance mission over northern Chad in an uninhabited region south of the town of Faya-Largeau, in the northeast of the country Pilot ejected, rescued  

Thursday
12th April 2007
3 p.m.

GAF

                                                      photo: Bundeswehr-Luftwaffe
     
PA 200 Tornado ECR  46+47
JBG 32
Lechfeld
Returning from an exercise on the French island of
Corsica crashed in the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Alps
 
possibly ejected at low level died on ground
[confirmation ??]
WSO ejected at low level sustained  injuries Martin-Baker
SOURCES:  Bundeswehr-Luftwaffe Official Website; Media News Feeds; Mil Spotters Forum
Monday 16th April 2007
11:06

Guinean air force
MiG-21U Mongol     Crashed into the West African country's state broadcasting centre setting the building on fire. No ground injuries reported     KM-1
ejected ejected KM-1
Thursday 19th April 2007
Swedish AF
JAS 39C Gripen 39259  212th amc

F21 Air Force Base,
Lulea

 taking part in a military exercise. Crashed on approach to Vidsel airport in northern Sweden Pilot Stefan Kaarle ejected but sustained minor injuries
NSD; Foto: Göran Ström
Martin-Baker Mk 10L

Friday 20th April 2007
12:25

RAF
Hawk T.1 XX196 208 sqn crashed at RAF Mona,  a small satellite airfield connected to RAF Valley      
pilot ejected no other occupant Martin-Baker

Wednesday 25th April 2007

Pakistan Air Force
Mirage     crashed in central Punjab province near the town of Jhang pilot ejected safely   Martin-Baker
                 
                 
May
Date Air Force A'cft Unit / Serial based crashed crew photo seat
Friday 4th May 2007
10.32am

Royal Malaysian Air Force
Hawk 208   Kuantan Airbase Routine flight training. Crashed after take-off Kapt Yusni Sari ejected safely and taken to  to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan   Martin-Baker Mk.10
Tuesday 8th May 2007 16:00h
IAF
MiG-29