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| Date | Air Force | A'cft | Unit / Serial | based | crashed | crew | photo | seat |
 Monday 7th January 2008 1 pm EST |
 USN |
F/A-18E Super Hornet |
VFA- CVW-3 USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) |
Mid-air collison while providing en route close air support from Iraq crashed in the Persian Gulf |
Pilot ejected been rescued and taken back to the ship |
Martin-Baker NACES |
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Monday 7th January 2008 1 pm EST |
USN |
F/A-18F Super Hornet |
VFA- CVW-3 USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) |
Mid-air collison while providing en route close air support from Iraq crashed in the Persian Gulf |
Martin-Baker NACES |
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Pilot ejected been rescued and taken back to the ship |
NFO ejected been rescued and taken back to the ship |
Martin-Baker NACES |
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Tuesday 15th January 2008 19:30 |
USAF |
F-16C Block 30 |
87-0347 |
 482nd Fighter Wing Homestead Air Reserve Base |
Crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near Key West, on Tuesday evening during a routine training mission |
Pilot ejected safely taken to a Key West hospital later released |
ACES II | |
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Monday 28th January 2008 14:00 Portuguese time |
 FAP |
F-16B MLU(M4) |
15140 [83-1171] |
Monte Real Air Base (BA5) | Crashed in the pine forest near the Air Base | |||
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Pilot Lt.Colonel João "Skipper"
Pereira ejected near the ground |
Rear Seat not occupied | ACES II | ||||||
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Monday 28th January 2008 |
 Russian AF |
L-39 |
Krasnodar Higher Air Force School Kotelnikovo airbase |
Crashed in Russia’s southern Volgograd region | VS-1 | |||
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graduate
Cadet
Sergey Dedkov ejected |
instructor pilot
Senior Lieutenant Sergey Gorshkov ejected died from injuries |
VS-1 | ||||||
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Monday 28th January 2008 11.25am |
 Italian Air Force |
Tornado |
 6th Stormo Ghedi |
Fire during take off run |
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Martin-Baker 10A | ||
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Col. Aurelio Colagrande ejected |
Maj. Vincenzo Ruggiero ejected |
Martin-Baker 10A | ||||||
 Thursday 31st January 2008 12:40 |
 IAF |
MiG-27 | Hashimara airbase | Routine training exercise. Crashed in the eastern state of West Bengal, Jalpaiguri district |
Wing Commander Jasbir Singh ejected safely |
KM-1 | ||
| February | ||||||||
| Date | Air Force | A'cft | Unit / Serial | based | crashed | crew | photo | seat |
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Friday 1st February 2008 12:25 Moscow Time |
Russian AF |
Aero L-39 Albatros | Krasnodar Higher Air Force School | Engine failure. Two unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine. Crashed at the airfield in Armavir | VS-1 | |||
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Major Serov ejected safely Recovered by SAR Mi-8 helicopter. |
rear seat not occupied | VS-1 | ||||||
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Friday 1st February 2008 1:37 p.m |
USAF |
F-15D Eagle |
199th FS,
154th Wing Hawaii Air National Guard  |
Crashed about 60 miles south of Oahu |
Pilot ejected safely rescue from water by U.S. Coast Guard taken to Queen's Medical Center Honolulu |
ACES II | ||
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Monday 11th February 2008 20:00 |
Italian Air Force |
F-16 |
MM???? 18°Gruppo |
 37° Stormo Trapani-Birgi Air Base |
crashed during night training mission 15 miles from Levanzo Island off the coast of Sicily in very poor weather conditions |
Commander Maurizio De Angelis ejected |
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ACES II |
| Tuesday 12th February 2008 |
 Kazakstan Air Force |
MiG-29UB | Almaty Air Base | Training flight. crashed near Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty. |
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K-36 | ||
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Pilot
Maj. Aleksandr Leonidovich Kovyazin ejected killed |
Co-pilot
Lt. Col. Vitaliy Emilevich
Dilmukhamedov ejected OK |
K-36 | ||||||
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Tuesday
12th February 2008 16:00h |
USN |
EA-6B Prowler |
 VAQ‑136 |
U.S.S. Kitty Hawk Strike Group | Crashed 20 miles northeast of Andersen Air Force Base | ejected safely | Martin-Baker GRU-EA7 | |
| ejected safely | ||||||||
| ejected safely | ||||||||
| ejected safely | ||||||||
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Crew recovered by two helos from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron TWO FIVE
[HSC-25] "Island Knights" Further details appreciated |
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Tuesday 12th February 2008 22:40 |
 FAF |
Mirage 2000N | 315 / 4-BF |
FAB-116
"Lieutenant-colonel Papin" de Luxeuil escadron 2/4 Lafayette |
Problem after an in-flight refueling. The pilot directed his plane towards an uninhabited area, and the crew ejected over the Ocean. |
SEMMB F10Q [Martin-Baker] |
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| ejected | ejected |
SEMMB F10Q [Martin-Baker] |
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| One of the crew was recovered by a fishing boat, the other by speedboat from the French Gendarmerie | ||||||||
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Wednesday 13th
February 2008 13:00 |
USMC |
AV-8B Harrier losses & ejection page under construction |
 24th MEU Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point |
crashed on a routine training mission in Carteret County near Open Grounds Farms northeast of Morehead Cityin coastal North Carolina |
Capt. Ian E. Stephenson ejected safely |
Stencel | ||
| Friday 15th February 2008 |
IAF |
MiG-21 | Bhuj airbase | Routine training sortie crashed in marshlands in Kutch near the Indo-Pak border |
Flight Lieutenant S Agashe ejected |
KM-1 | ||
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Wednesday 20th February 2008 2 p.m. CST |
USAF |
F-15C Eagle |
 33rd Fighter Wing "Nomads" |
 58th Fighter Squadron "Gorillas" Elgin AFB Florida |
Crashed about 35 miles south of Tyndall Air Force Base off the Florida Coast into Gulf of Mexico |
Pilot ejected rescued from the water and taken to local hospital |
ACES II | |
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Wednesday 20th February 2008 2 p.m. CST |
USAF |
F-15C Eagle |
33rd Fighter Wing "Nomads" |
58th Fighter Squadron "Gorillas" Elgin AFB Florida |
1st Lt. Ali Jivanjee ejected rescued from the water and taken to local hospital died later |
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ACES II | |
| Saturday 23rd February 2008 |
USAF |
B‑2B Spirit |
89-0127 "Spirit of Kansas" |
 509th Bomb Wing Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster, Mo. Deployed to Guam from Whiteman |
Crashed on take-off from Guam at Andersen airbase | ejected safely | ACES II | |
| ejected safely | ACES II | |||||||
| March | ||||||||
| Date | Air Force | A'cft | Unit / Serial | based | crashed | crew | photo | seat |
| Tuesday 4th March 2008 |
USN |
T‑45C Goshawk |
 Training Squadron 9 |
 Training Air Wing 1 Naval Air Station Meridian, MS, USA |
crashed near the base in northern Lauderdale County into a densely wooded area |
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Martin-Baker
NACES |
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| ejected safely | ejected safely |
Martin-Baker
NACES |
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| 10th March 2008 |
 Slovenia |
PC-9 | Cerklje ob Krki Air Base | Martin-Baker Mk SA11A | ||||
| Pilot remained in cockpit, safe landing |
Co-pilot Robert Jerina [BRZOL Letalstva] planned ejection |
Martin-Baker Mk SA11A | ||||||
| Tuesday 18th March 2008 |
 Pakistan |
Mirage | Fareed Airbase | training flight. Crashed due to a technical problem 22 kilometers west of Rajanpur city in the southwestern part of Punjab. | Pilot ejected | Martin-Baker PRM4 | ||
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Friday
21st March 2008 10:30 |
FN |
Super Ētendard |
Landivisiau |
 photo La Télégramme.com |
Martin-Baker CM6[SEMMB] |
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| Crashed shortly after take off from Nimes-Garon (Gard) into the Mediterranean two miles south of Cavalaire (VAr). | Pilot ejected and later recovered from sea by Super Frelon helo dispatched from Hyères | |||||||
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24th March 2008 14h:07 |
 FAB |
EMB-312 Tucano | FAB-1366 |
Academia da Força Aérea Campo Fontenelle Pirassununga, São Paulo |
Suffered an engine malfunction while on a training flight over the northern sector of the AF Academy during touch and goes at air base |
Martin-Baker BR8LC |
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| Cadete Aviador Rodrigo Janowski Zandoná (trainee)ejected safely | 1º Tenente Aviador Marcelo Guimarães Resende (instructor) ejected safely |
Martin-Baker BR8LC |
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| Both rescued by a helicopter of the Brazilian Air Force's SAR service that was on alert at th AF Academy | ||||||||
| April | ||||||||
| 6th April 2008 |
 RJAF |
CASA 101 | Mafraq Air Base | Martin-Baker JD10LU | ||||
| Ejected safely | Ejected safely | Martin-Baker JD10LU | ||||||
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Monday 7th April 2008 09:40 |
 South Korean AF |
RF-4C Phantom II[list in preparation] |
39th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron
Suwon Air Base, Seoul |
SurveillanceTraining mission. Crashed hill in east of Wonju, Gangwon Province |
Martin-Baker H7AF |
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Captain ??? ejected rescued from a tree which his parachute had snagged |
1st lieutenant Ryu ejected suffered minor facial injuries |
Martin-Baker H7AF |
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| Neither badly hurt. Both taken to a nearby hospital for treatment | ||||||||
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Monday 14th April 2008 19:00 [14:30gmt] |
 IRIAF |
Su-24MK (needs confirmation) |
Mehrabad airport | crashed on landing on a training mission and burst into flames |
K-36 (needs confirmation) |
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| Pilot ejected | Co-Pilot ejected | |||||||
| Source: Fars News Agency | ||||||||
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Thursday
17th April 2008 in afternoon 15:52 |
 Hungarian Air Force |
MiG-29 | 15 |
 photo MTI |
Major Zoltán "Peszke" Peszeki |
K-36 | ||
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59th TFW Kecskemét, Hungary |
During a low approach manuever the aircraft hit the
ground at Kecskemét, slid across the main road near
the airbase and burnt out NEWS LINK |
Pilot ejected OK, hospitalized for observation | ||||||
| Thursday 17th April 2008 |
Pakistan Air Force |
Chengdu FT-7 | crashed 25 miles west of Faisalabad | pilot ejected safely | Martin-Baker | |||
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Friday 18th April 2008 16:00 (local) |
 CAF |
CT-155 Hawk |
 15 Wing Moose Jaw |
Crashed during a routine training
mission at Moose Jaw airbase in Saskatchewan [NATO Flight Training in Canada program] |
Martin-Baker | |||
 Maj. Frank Wagener GAF ejected safely minor injuries |
2nd Lt. Rock Veilleux CAF ejected safely minor injuries |
Martin-Baker | ||||||
| Tuesday 29th April 2008 |
IAF |
Hawk | Take off aborted at Bidar airport in Karnataka and slid off runway due to a technical problem. Damage unspecified | Martin-Baker Mk.10 | ||||
| Indian pilot escaped without injury | British pilot escaped without injury | Martin-Baker Mk.10 | ||||||
| Some Indian news reports indicate one of the pilots ejected. Confirmation appreciated | ||||||||
| May | ||||||||
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Thursday 15th May 2008 15:30 |
USMC |
TAV-8B Harrier II |
163861 |
Marine Attack
Training Squadron 203 Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma |
Engine failure during air to surface sortie. Training Mission. Crashed Barry Goldwater Range, southeast of Yuma, southern Arizona | Stencel | ||
| ejected | ejected | Stencel | ||||||
| Both taken to Yuma Regional Medical Center | ||||||||
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Tuesday 20th May 2008 20:30 |
USN |
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Martin-Baker
NACES |
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| student pilot ejected safely | flight instructor ejected safely |
Martin-Baker
NACES |
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| T‑45C Goshawk | 165486 |
VT-7 Training Air Wing 1 Naval Air Station Meridian, MS, USA |
On routine training flight. Crashed south of the runway | Both the instructor and student pilot suffered minor injuries. They were taken to Jeff Anderson Hospital. | ||||
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Wednesday 21st May 2008 11:00 CET |
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J-22 Orao (‘Eagle’) | 25-114 | crashed near Čenta on the road to Sakule, near Zrenjanin |
Major Tomas Janik ejected safely minor injuries |
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Marti | |