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January
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Date |
Air Force |
A'cft |
Unit / Serial |
based |
crashed |
crew |
photo |
seat |
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Wednesday 4th January 2012 |
Burmese Army |
Transport Helicopter |
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Claimed damaged by ground fire near Mu Bum mountain
and crash landing in a paddy field near Sinlum Bum
village in N’Mawk (Momauk) Township in northern
Kachin State,
by Kachin Independence Army 3rd Brigade |
Pilot reported killed upon impact |
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Friday 6th January 2012
10:30 Jakarta Time
03:30 gmt |
Indonesian Navy |
Charlie 5D3417i
[Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor]
Confirm |
LD 3417 |
Adisucipto Naval Base |
Flying from Solo to Yogyakarta on a trial
flight. Crashed in Central Java in a rice paddy at Karangrejo village,
Jetis, Magelang district |
Captain Ali Mustofa
killed |
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Saturday 7th January 2012
 |
Private |
Cirrus SR-22 |
needs confirmation |
needs confirmation |
Deployed parachute
when their aircraft developed engine problems
over the water approximately 2 miles west of Andros,
Bahamas |
|
|
Cirrus
CAP |
Dr.
Richard McGlaughlin
59 |
Elaine McGlaughlin
25 |
|
Rescued by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla |
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Saturday 14th January 2012
13:00 local
|
French Air Force |
Dassault Mirage
2000D |
|
Escadron 3.11 "Corse", based in Djibouti |
Collided performing a scheduled air combat
training engagement during the "Green Shield" joint exercise in Saudi Arabia's
northern region of Tabuk |
|
|
SEM MB
[licence-built Martin-Baker Mk 10Q zero/zero
ejection seat] |
??
ejected |
??
ejected |
SEM MB
[licence-built Martin-Baker Mk 10Q zero/zero
ejection seat] |
|
Taken to the Northern
Sector Command by Saudi helicopter |
Saturday 14th January 2012
|
Royal Saudi Air Force |
McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle |
|
|
Collided performing a scheduled air combat
training engagement during the "Green Shield" joint exercise in Saudi Arabia's
northern region of Tabuk |
??
ejected
Taken to the Northern
Sector Command by Saudi helicopter |
|
ACES II |
|
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Sunday 15th January 2012 |
RJAF |
to
be confirmed |
|
|
Crashed during a
routine training flight |
Lieutenant pilot
Mohammad Ahmad Ali Al-Qwaqzeh
[Mohamed
Ahmed Ali Agazzagazzh]
محمد احمد علي القواقزة
killed |
 |
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Monday 16th January
2012
16.30-16.45 |
PAF
TuAF |
T-37C |
|
Take off was from Azmeer Airbase
Cigli Air Force Base |
Missing in Aegean Sea
about 7-8 kilometres north of Foça town two miles
off the coast of Arslanburnu |
via www.defence.pk |
 |
Weber |
IP
Major Masood Hussain Chhachhar
Pakistan
missing |
Lieutenant Serkan Sağır
23
missing
body recovered |
Weber |
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Thursday 19th January 2012 |
NATO
ISAF
USMC |
CH-53D Sea Stallion |
|
HMH-363
[Marine
Heavy Helicopter Squadron 363]
"Red Lions"
MAG-24
[Marine Aircraft Group 24]
1st MAW
[1st
Marine Aircraft Wing[
III Marine
Expeditionary Force,
Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe, Hawaii |
Crashed in southern Afghanistan while supporting
combat operations in Helmand province as part of
Operation Enduring Freedom |
6
marines killed |
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Capt. Nathan R. McHone
29
Crystal Lake |
Capt. Daniel B. Bartle
27
Ferndale, Wash |
MSgt. Travis W. Riddick
40
Centerville, Iowa |
Cpl. Jesse W. Stites
23
North Beach, Md |
Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard
25
Colonia, N.J. |
Cpl. Joseph D. Logan
22
Willis, Texas. |
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Friday 20th January 2012 |
Private |
L-39 Albatros |
|
Aerobatic loss |
Took off from an airport in Rainbow City, Alabama en
route back to Burlington,. Crashed shortly after
take off. |
Tom Coble
58
killed |
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|
??
January 2012
Full date needed |
IAF |
Antonov AN-32 |
|
Jorhat, Assam |
Damaged during heavy landing in Jorhat |
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Monday 23rd January 2012 |
Private Ownership |
Yakovlev Yak-52TW |
|
Aerobatic
loss |
Crashed in
a field in Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand’s North
Island |
|
|
|
Dr. Ralph Saxe
killed |
Dr. Brett Ireland
killed |
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Tuesday 24th January 2012 |
Afghan Air Force |
Mil
Mi-17 |
|
|
Downed during life-saving support to 31 Afghan
victims of an avalanche. Near the city of Fayzabad,
northern Afghanistan. Their rescue was aided by the
438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron |
Crew OK |
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Wednesday 25th January
2012
10:20am
|
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
 |
 |
|
Martin-Baker PK10LZ |
Chengdu FT-7P
[also seen as
MFI-17 Mushshak] |
|
Mianwali airbase,
Punjab |
Routine training
mission.
Crashed near Mianwali shortly after take-off. |
Flying Officer Fatima Tariq
female trainee pilot
ejected
injured |
instructor pilot
Wing Commander Waqar Ahmad
ejected
injured |
Martin-Baker PK10LZ |
|
Further details of mishap appreciated |
|
|
|
Thursday 26th January
2012
04:30 local |
IRIAF |
Grumman F-14 Tomcat |
|
Bushehr
Air Force Base |
Crashed 3 minutes
after take-off 30 kilometres from Bushehr in the
area of Farraakeh, in water |
 |
 |
Martin-Baker GRU-7 |
Colonel Alireza Karimaayi
killed |
Major Mostafa Fasihi
killed |
Martin-Baker GRU-7 |
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Sunday 29th January 2012 |
IDFAF / IAI |
IAI
Heron TP
Drone
Eitan
unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) |
|
Tel
Nof Air Force Base |
Crashed in central Israel on a routine experimental
flight. |
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Monday 30th January 2012 |
Venezuelan National Guard
FANB |
Cessna 172 |
GN-04135 |
|
Routine training flight Crashed near Margarita
Island while approaching the airport on the
Caribbean island of Coche. |
Four on board killed |
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| |
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Capt. Jose
Vielma |
Lt.
Jhonatan Veroes |
Lt. Jhoan
Guillen |
Sgt.
Francisco Hernandez |
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Tuesday
31st January 2012
11:00
|
IAF |
HJT-16
Kiran Mk.2 |
??? |
Tambaram
Air Force Base |
Routine
training sortie. Crashed into a lake at Ayyancheri near Urapakkam village, about 35 km
from Chennai. |
|
|
Martin-Baker H4HA1/2 |
Wing Commander C. G.
Deepak
ejected |
Squadron Leader K.
P. Singh
ejected |
Martin-Baker H4HA1/2 |
|
|
|
Friday 3rd February 2012
16:00
|
RoCAF |
AIDC* AT-3 "Zìqiáng"
[Self
Reliance] |
No. 0809 |
R.O.C. Academy
Gangshan Air
Force Base, Greater
Kaohsiung city
Taiwan |
Routine training
mission. Mid-air collision touching the jet in front
of them damaging the horitontal stabilizer. Crashed
out of control at the upstream section of Shiwen
Creek, in a mountain region, on the
border of Fangliao and Chunjih townships of Pingtung
County, southern Taiwan |
 |
 |
Martin-Baker Mk.X10LQ |
Front seat
1st Lt. Tseng Kuo-wei
(曾國維)
26
ejected
minor injuries |
Rear seat
Lt. Col. Chang Kuo-chiang
(張國強)
37
ejected
minor injuries
[fractured wrist] |
Martin-Baker Mk.X10LQ |
Friday 3rd February
2012
16:00 |
RoCAF |
AIDC* AT-3 "Zìqiáng"
[Self
Reliance] |
No. 0816 |
R.O.C. Academy
Gangshan Air
Force Base, Greater
Kaohsiung city
Taiwan |
Routine training
mission. Mid-air collision struck from behind by
other aircraft at 16,000ft. Landed safely back at
Gangshan Air Force Base in Kaohsiung city. |
|
|
Martin-Baker Mk.X10LQ |
??
egressed safely on ground |
??
egressed safely on ground |
Martin-Baker Mk.X10LQ |
|
|
|
Wednesday 8th February
2012
11:45 |
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
Chengdu
F-7PG |
|
No. 23 Sqn
("Talons")
Smungali Air Base
Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan |
Crashed shortly after take off during training
mission
near
Pasheen [Pishin?], 50 km
north
of Quetta
while
on a routine training mission in southwestern
Balochistan province |
Flight Lieutenant Haseef Alam
ejected ?
[is this confirmed?}
taken to hospital
died from serious injuries |
 |
Martin-Baker PK10LZ |
The authorities had
earlier said that the pilot had successfully ejected
but sustained serious injuries.
photo
Courtesy:
@PAF
Falcons via
Asad Siddiqui |
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Wednesday 8th February
2012 |
JMSDF |
SH-60J |
8264 |
25th Koukuutai
21st Koukuugun
Oominato JMSDF Base
Mutsu City
Aomori Prefecture |
Air
taxiing training and low-altitude flight above
runway training. Crashed, and inverted in heavy snow
storm and poor visibility 60 metres northwest of
middle runway |
Three crew OK |
| |
|
|
Pilot
Lieutenant Commander Sekikawa Satoshi
50 |
Co-pilot
Petty Officer First Class Hayashi
Tomohiro
24 |
Chief Petty
Officer Hasegawa Ken'ichi
49
minor injuries |
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|
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|
Friday 10th February
2012
13:20 |
FAP
[Fuerza
Aérea del Perú]
Peru |
Moravan Otrokovice
Zlin Z-242L
[Model 210]
confirm designation ? |
No.475 |
Basic Training Squadron 511
[Escuadrón Primario Aéreo 511]
51st Air Group
[Grupo
Aéreo Nº 51]
3rd Air
Wing
[Ala
Aérea Nº 3]
Pisco, Pisco Province,
Ira Region, Peru |
Training flight.
Crashed at a base in Pisco province, north of Lima |
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|
|
Captain Victor
Bustamante
Reynaldo Velasco
killed |
IP
Major
Ángel
Santiago Cano Machado
killed |
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Saturday 11th February
2012 |
Tajikistan
ISAF |
Mi-8MTV
Helo |
|
Central Asian Aviation
Services
UAE |
Crashed in Shinkay district of Zabul province in
southern Afghanistan due to technical problems.
Civilian helicopter was contracted to carry supplies
to foreign forces
Initial reports are
stating the helicopter crashed due to bad weather
and a “technical problem.”
Taliban have
claimed its fighters shot down the helicopter. |
Version 1 |
Version 2 |
|
4
on board
[three men and one woman] killed
[Working for
Supreme Group, a logistics company under
contract to NATO]
Supreme Group,
stated that the helicopter was carrying food and
water to U.S. forces. The helicopter was operated by
a company called Central Asian Aviation Services |
Tajikistan's Defense
Ministry says one of its helicopters has crashed in
neighboring Afghanistan, killing four air force
officers while performing a support operation for
the international military coalition |
Taliban have claimed
its fighters shot down the helicopter. |
|
Further clarification of details appreciated |
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| |
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|
|
Lieutenant Colonel Vadim Grudyna
killed
|
Major Bakhtiyor Jurayev
killed |
Senior Lieutenant Azizullo
Mansourov
killed |
Senior Lieutenant Khoushnoud
Amirbekov
killed |
|
All were from
the
Tajikistan Air Force. |
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|
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|
Monday 13th February 2012
13.35
|
Sri Lanka Air Force |
Mikoyan
MiG-27 |
|
No.
12 Jet Squadron
Katunayake Air Force Base, Sri Lanka |
Training
mission over the town of Dummalasuriya, 60
kilometres north of the capital. Crashed
in Marawila, near Puttalam,
into a coconut plantation in north-western Sri Lanka |
Flight Lieutenant Tharidu Herath
ejected |
|
KM-1 |
|
|
|
Monday 13th February 2012
20:40 local
|
Russian Air Force |
Sukhoi Su-24 |
69 806 |
Shagol airbase at
Chelyabinsk |
Crashed
in the Kurgan region
90
km from the Shagol airport in the Chelyabinsk
region. |
 |
 |
Zvezda K-36 |
Lt. Colonel Andrey Ermakov
(chief of combat training) |
Colonel Nikolay Gostev*
(air base commander) |
Zvezda K-36 |
|
*Colonel Gostev's
son, Evgeniy, ejected from a Yak-130
on 29th May 2010 at
Lipetsk airbase. |
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|
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Saturday 18th February
2012
20:00 local |
USAF |
Pilatus U-28A |
|
1st Special Operations Wing
U.S. Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa
Camp Lemonnier
Republic of Djibouti
East Africa |
Returning from a mission in support of the
Afghanistan war.
Crashed in Djibouti about six miles from the
Djibouti International Airport. |
All
U.S. personnel on board killed |
|
|
|
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Monday 20th February 2012
11:00 |
USAF |
F-16 Falcon |
|
assigned to Eielson
Air Force Base, Alaska |
Training mission in
support of COPE NORTH 2012. Experienced
hydraulic malfunction
and made
an emergency landing at Saipan International Airport
and rolled off the end of the runway. |
Pilot OK |
|
ACES II |
|
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|
Tuesday 21st February 2012 |
British Army
Air Corps |
Westland/Boeing Apache AH-1 attack helicopter |
|
Army Air Corps
(AAC)
Wattisham,
Suffolk |
During night-time training flight struck power lines
near Wattisham airfield in Suffolk. Made emergency
landing in nearby field. |
Both crew OK |
|
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012
10:30 ET |
USMC |
UH-1Y
Huey
helicopter |
|
3rd
Marine Aircraft Wing
Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton |
Midair collision with AH-1W
Cobra during routine two-week training exercise
called "Scorpion Fire" |
all five on board
killed |
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 |
Capt. Michael M. Quin
28
Purcellville, Va.
[Camp
Pendleton, Southern California] |
Sgt.
Justin A. Everett
33
Clovis, Calif.
[Camp
Pendleton, Southern California] |
Lance Cpl. Corey A.
Little
25
Marietta, Ga.
[Camp
Pendleton, Southern California] |
Lance Cpl. Nickoulas H. Elliott
21
Spokane, Wash.
[Camp
Pendleton, Southern California] |
Capt. Nathan W. Anderson
32
Amarillo, Texas.
[based in Yuma] |
|
|
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
10:30 ET |
USMC |
AH-1W
Super Cobra
helicopter |
|
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton, Southern
California |
Midair collision with AH-1W
Cobra during routine two-week training exercise
called "Scorpion Fire" |
 |
 |
|
Capt. Benjamin N.
"Ben" Cerniglia
31
Montgomery,
Ala. |
Maj.
Thomas A. Budrejko
37
Montville, Conn. |
|
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|
Friday 24th February
2010
12:10
|
IAF |
Mirage 2000
TH |
KT-203 |
No.1 Squadron
"Tigers"
Maharajpura
Air Base, Gwalior |
Routine
training sortie. Crashed at in Gorelalkapura
village near Bhind, Madhya Pradesh. |
 |
 |
|
Air Marshal Anil
Chopra
ejected
Commodore Commandant of 1 Squadron on an
official visit to Gwalior.
(The Air Marshal is
reportedly the first Air Marshal ever to eject in
any Air Force). |
Wing Commander Ram
Kumar
ejected |
SEM MB*
[licence-built Martin-Baker Mk 10Q zero/zero
ejection seat] |
|
Both
sustained minimal ejection related injuries |
|
|
|
Friday 24th February 2012
|
USN |
F/A-18F Super Hornet |
|
Naval Air Station Fallon |
Strike Fighter Tactics
Instructor course conducted by the Naval Strike and
Air Warfare Center. Crashed about 30 miles northeast
of Fallon |
|
|
Martin-Baker
NACES |
??
ejected |
??
ejected |
Martin-Baker
NACES |
|
|
|
Tuesday 28th February 2012
10:30 Moscow time
|
Sukhoi
Russia |
Sukhoi Su-30MKI
Flanker H |
|
Sukhoi
Komsomolsk-na-Amure factory |
Caught fire during its
post-construction test flight. Crashed 130 km
northeast of Komsomolsk-na-Amure |
|
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| |
|
Zvezda K-36 |
Lt. Col. Valery Kirillin
ejected
injured when he hit a tree during landing |
Captain Alexei Gorshkov
ejected |
Zvezda K-36 |
|
Confirmation of
crew appreciated |
|
|
|
Tuesday 28th February
2012
13:00
18:00 gmt |
Guatemalan Air Force |
UH-1H
Helicopter |
HL190 |
|
Crashed in bade weather, in a mountainous area, near
the village of Quebrada Seca, San Luis, Peten about 300 miles from Guatemala
City. The helicopter was attending a civilian
helicoter that had crashed in Izabel with three
people on board earlier the same day. |
two
crew and at least six, seven orr eight others presumed dead
three injured
Guatemalan Military sources are saying that 8 died. |
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|
teniente Everardo Portillo Salazar
pilot |
subteniente Geovany Mohíno Barrientos
co-pilot |
teniente
Manuel Ovalle García |
subteniente
Joel Zacarias Rodriguez |
subteniente
Manuel Bran |
| |
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|
Amilcar de
León Escobar |
Manuel Axpuac |
Emerson Rivera
Reyes |
Estuardo
Martínez |
|
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|
More details when
available |
|
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|
Tuesday 29th February 2012
20:30 local
21:30 ET |
US Coast Guard |
MH-65C Dolphin |
CG-6535 |
US Coast Guard
Aviation Training Center, Mobile |
Crashed on a training
mission in Mobile Bay, near Point Clear, Alabama |
1 confirmed dead, 3
missing |
|
|
| |
|
Lt. Cmdr. Dale Taylor |
Lt. (jg) Thomas Cameron |
Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Knight |
Chief Petty Officer Fernando Jorge |
|
| |
More details when available |
|
|
|
Monday 5th March 2012
12:45
|
IAF |
Mirage 2000 |
KT203
[Confirm] |
Gwalior |
Routine training
mission. Crashed shortly after take-off near
Baman Baas village, in Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan |
| |
|
|
Squadron Leader Raj
Kumar
ejected |
Flight Lieutenant
Kanav
ejected |
SEM MB*
[licence-built Martin-Baker Mk 10Q zero/zero
ejection seat] |
|
|
|
Tuesday 6th March 2012
09:15 |
ATAC |
F-21
IAI Kfir C-2 |
N404AX |
ATAC
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company
Naval Air Station Fallon |
Crashed inside the west gate of the NAS Fallon
military airfield in poor weather conditions. |
Carroll "Lex" LeFon
killed |
|
Martin-Baker |
|
|
|
Sunday 11th March 2012
10:30 |
Philippines Air Force |
UH-1H Huey |
317 |
Tactical Operations Group-10
(TOG-10)
Air Tactical Station, Butuan City |
On
a mission to airlift a wounded soldier for medical
treatment and supply provisions to military who are
conducting operations against the "New People’s
Army". Crash landed in a field in Sitio
Zapanta, Barangay, Bangayan village. The helicopter
was trying to land in Kitcharao, Agusan del
Norte province, southern Philippines. |
All 7 (two crew and
five passengers) on board received minor injuries |
| |
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|
Pilot
injured |
Co-Pilot
injured |
Gunner
injured |
Gunner
injured |
Soldier
injured |
Soldier
injured |
Soldier
injured |
|
|
|
|
Monday 12th March 2012
21:05 Moscow Time |
Russian Air Force |
Kamov Ka-52
Hokum B
Alligator |
|
Torzhok Air Base |
Routine training
flight. Crashed in heavy snow conditions ten miles
west of Torzhok in the Tver region. |
 |
 |
K-37 Rocket Extraction Seat |
Pilot
Lieutenant Maxim Fedorov
killed |
Pilot
Lt. Col. Dmitry Rakushin
severe injuries.
Died later on way to hospital |
K-37 Rocket Extraction Seat |
|
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|
|
Tuesday 13th March
2012 |
TuAF |
Northrop NF-5B |
|
“Türk Yıldızları”
(Turkish Stars)
Aerobatic Team
3rd Air Force Base
Konya |
Crashed
in Konya near the
Turkish Engine Industry and Trade Corporation (TÜMOSAN)
factory, |
 |
|
Martin-Baker Mk 10B
[Northrop??] |
Captain Ümit Özer
killed |
co-pilot
missing |
Martin-Baker Mk 10B
[Northrop??] |
|
|
|
Wednesday 14th March 2012
11:30 |
Nigerian Police |
Helicopter
[type?] |
|
Police Staff College, Kuru,
part of Federal Government Special Task Force |
Crashed
shortly after take off from field near Jos prison in populated area
during routine patrol at Kabong, in Jos, Plateau State. |
4 on board
killed |
|
|
| |
|
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|
ACP* Garba Yalwa
pilot
killed
*Assistant
Commissioner of Police |
CSP* Alexander Pwol-Ja
co-pilot
killed
*Chief
Superintendent of Police |
DIG* John Haruna
“B Department”
(Operations)
killed
*Deputy
Inspector General of Police |
Sgt Sonatian Shirunam
orderly to the DIG
killed |
|
|
|
|
Thursday 15th March
2012
14:43 |
Norwegian Air Force |
C-130J Hercules |
|
|
On
a flight from Evenes, Norway, to Kiruna, Sweden.
Taking part in military exercise "Cold Response" (March
12th to March 21st). The aircraft went missing
in poor weather about 80 km (50 miles) west of
Kiruna near Sweden's highest mountain, Kebnekaise. |
Crew
of four men and a woman on board |
|
|
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 |
 |
Oberstløytant
Truls Ørpen
46
pilot |
Kaptein Ståle Garberg
42
pilot |
Kaptein Bjørn Haug
40 |
Kaptein
Steinar
Utne
35 |
Kaptein
Siw
Robertsen
45 |
Crew details released by
the
Norwegian Armed Forces
photos:
forsvaret
|
More details when available |
|
|
|
Friday 16th March 2012
10:25 local
05:55 GMT |
NATO
ISAF |
Sikorsky
S-70A Black Hawk
Helicopter |
|
ISAF
International Security
Assistance Force |
Crashed into houses in the Hassian Khail area
of the
Bagrami district, Kabul, Afghanistan. |
12 Turkish ISAF members and 4
Afghan civilians killed |
|
|
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|
|
Friday 16th March 2012
18:00
(23:00 GMT) |
Ecuadorian
Army Aircraft |
Casa
?? |
|
Quito |
Made an
emergency landing at Quito airport shortly after
take off on a flight to
Guayaquil |
36
on board |
|
|
|
|
|
Monday 19th March 2012
17:14
|
Ecuadorian
Air Force
FAE |
Embraer
A-29
Super Tucano (ALX) |
|
2311 or 2313
?? Squadron
[needs confirmation]
Ala de combate 23
Fighter Wing No. 23
Base Aérea Eloy Alfaro, Manta |
Crashed in an
uninhabited region after problems over the
Eloy Alfaro Airport Manta. |
|
|
Martin-Baker BR10LCX |
Capitán
David Tapia
[also seen as Martínez]
ejected |
Teniente
Santiago
Galarza
ejected |
Martin-Baker BR10LCX |
|
|
|
Wednesday 21st March 2012
|
USAF |
F-16 |
|
36th Fighter Squadron
51st Fighter Wing
Kunsan Air Base |
Taking part in exercise Foal Eagle. Crashed into a
paddy field in Hwayang village, Seocheon county,
South Chungcheong province. |
Pilot
ejected |
|
ACES II |
|
|
|
Monday 26th March 2012
21:20 |
ROCAF |
S-70C-6 |
70-2417 |
Sea
Gull SAR Squadron
Chia Yi AB |
Crashed into sea during medevac sortie from Chia Yi,
to Lan Yu Island, Tai Tung |
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Major LU
Zheng
Pilot
missing |
Captain
HONG Shi Hao
Co-pilot
missing |
Senior
Master Sergeant CAI Guo Hu
Flight engineer
missing |
First
Lieutenant CHEN Bing Hong
Medical officer
missing |
Senior
Master Sergeant CHEN Jun Hong
medic
missing |
Staff
Sergeant CAI Yi Zhe
medic |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 28th March
2012
09:00
|
USAF |
F-15E Eagle |
|
391st Fighter Squadron
Bold Tigers
366th Fighter Wing
Gunfighters
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho |
Crashed 15 miles
outside a base in Southwest Asia. |
|
|
ACES II |
Capt. Francis D. "Piston" Imlay
31
Vacaville, Calif.
killed |
WSO
??
ejected
minor injuries |
ACES II |
|
|
|
|
Friday 30th March 2012 |
USN |
Northrop Grumman Corp
MQ-8B Fire Scout
Drone |
|
USS Simpson |
Unable to land on the Navy frigate Simpson. Crashed
off the coast of Africa after mission |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 4th April 2012 |
North Sudan |
MiG-29 |
|
|
Reported as one of two flying over the Naar and Toma
South oil fields.
Claimed shot down by South Sudanese near the
town of Panakuach in Unity state near the
border.
Denied by North Sudan. |
Pilot
fate unknown |
|
K-36 |
| Further details
appreciated |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 4th April 2012 |
USAF |
MQ-9 Reaper
Drone |
|
Seychelles International
Airport, Mahe. |
Crash-landed
at the Seychelles main airport and continued into
the Indian Ocean |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Friday 6th April 2012 |
USN |
Northrop Grumman Corp
MQ-8B Fire Scout
Drone |
|
|
Crashed in northern Afghanistan during surveillance
mission. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Friday 6th April 2012
|
USN |
F/A-18D Hornet |
|
VFA-106
"Gladiators"
(Strike Fighter Squadron)
Oceana Naval Air Station |
Crashed shortly after
take-off into Mayfair Mews apartments in South Birdneck Road, Virginia Beach |
|
|
Martin-Baker
NACES |
??
ejected |
??
ejected |
Martin-Baker
NACES |
|
|
|
Sunday 8th April 2012
12:27
|
Bangladesh Air Force |
Aero-Vodochody L-39
Albatros |
|
Kurmitola Air Base,
Chittagong, Bangladesh |
Crashed
shortly after take off near Madhupur sub-district
into a paddy field near Mohishmara village in
central Tangail district |
|
|
VS-1 |
Pilot
Flight Lieutenant
Reza Sharif
25
died from injuries |
Co-pilot
Squadron Leader Mamunur Rashid
40
ejected |
VS-1 |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 11th April
2012 |
USMC |
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey |
|
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced)
Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C.
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit
14th Marine Regiment
USS Iwo Jima
[amphibious assault ship] |
Taking part in the annual "African
Lion" joint exercise with Moroccan forces at Cap
Draa, Atlantic Coast.
Crashed
in a military training area southwest
of Agadir,
in southern
province of Tan Tan,
Morocco |
2
killed
2 injured |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Cpl. Robby A. Reyes
Los Angeles
killed |
Cpl. Derek A. Kerns
Fort Dix, New Jersey
killed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
More details when available |
|
|
|
|
Thursday 12th April
2012 |
HAL |
Schweizer-300C |
|
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited |
On a training sortie.
Developed
a technical problem. Made
an emergency landing on the roof of an apartment
building in the Indira Nagar area of the city
in
eastern suburb area in Bangalore |
|
|
|
Air Commodore (Retd) Roj Assey
56
safe egress |
Trainee
Captain Digvijay Singh
25
safe egress |
|
|
|
|
Sunday 15 April 2012
11:05 |
JMSDF |
SH-60J |
8279
#79 |
25th Koukuutai
21st Koukuugun,
Oominato JMSDF AB
Aomori Prefecture |
Crashed into Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture after
collision with port side of JDS Matsuyuki, and
|
Six
of seven crew and passengers rescued |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lieutenant
Commander Miyanaga Masahiko
37
pilot
killed |
Lieutenant
Junior Grade Sakaiwaki Yuuichirou
29
Co-pilot
major spinal injuries
rescued |
Lieutenant
Yoshida Hitoshi
40
Aviator
uninjured
rescued |
Petty
Officer First Class Yagihashi Yuuki
32
Mechanic
injured
rescued |
Petty
Officer First Class Segawa Satoshi
34
Mechanic
injured
rescued |
Petty
Officer First Class Sukekawa Hideshi
37
Mechanic
uninjured
rescued |
Petty
Officer First Class Takaoka Atsushi
30
Mechanic
uninjured
rescued
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thursday 19th April
2012 |
USA |
Sikorsky UH-60
Black Hawk |
|
|
Crashed in bad weather on a night-time mission to
collect troops in south western Afghanistan |
|
|
|
|
More
news when released |
|
|
|
|
Thursday 19th April 2012 |
IAF |
Sukhoi Su-30 |
|
Indian Air Force base
Lohegaon |
Routine training flight. Nose undercarriage problems
during landing at Pune Airport, Lohegaon. Front of
aircraft slid along runway damaging nose section. |
Pilot
egressed on ground
No ejection |
|
K-36 |
|
|
|
Thursday 26th April 2012
|
Bulgarian Air Force |
MiG-29 |
|
Graf
Ignatievo air force base |
The aircraft had been
taking part in the Bulgarian and US Air
Forces "Thracian Star 2012" exercises.
Crashed into a river near the village of Golyam
Chardak in the district of Plovdiv about 160
kilometres east of Sofia. |
|
|
Zvezda K-36 |
Maj. Ilia Doychinov
ejected |
Capt. Peter Metodiev
ejected |
Zvezda K-36 |
Thursday 26th April
2012
11:00 |
Spanish Air Force |
Casa C-101 |
|
San Javier in Murcia |
Crashed in Meco,
Alcalá de Henares on flight to Torreón de Ardoz |
|
|
Martin-Baker |
Student
??
killed |
IP
??
killed |
Martin-Baker |
|
|
|
Saturday 28th April 2012
|
Royal Saudi Air Force |
F-15 Eagle |
|
|
Crashed during a training mission in Tabuk region in
the northwest of the kingdom |
Pilot
ejected safely |
|
ACES II |
|
|
|
Monday 30th April 2012
16:30 |
Colombian Air Force |
Bell 212 |
FAC 4020 |
Fighter Squadron 313
Air Combat Command No. 3
Malambo, |
Caught fire
while flying. Crashed on a flight from
Barranquilla to Caucasia
in a rural area of the town of Sabanagrande,
Atlentico
Colombia |
Seven Air Force personnel and six policemen were
killed. |
|
|
|
Air Force personnel |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Major Jorge Abel Cardona Garcia
pilot |
2nd Lieutenant Hector Alejandro Vega
Cuevas
co-pilot |
Deputy technical Elver Ángel Sierra |
Fourth Technical José Manuel Pineda Arellano |
Lieutenant (Lt.) Colonel Luis Rodolfo
Sánchez Suárez
(Cacom 3, Commander of the Air
Intelligence Combat Group) |
Captain Fernando Alfonso Rodríguez
Amortegui
(Official Intelligence Air Combat
Command Group Cacom 3) |
Liutenant Leonardo Andrés Ramírez
Grajales
(Official Air Combat Command Cacom 3) |
|
|
|
National Police |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Superintendant Faber Fandiño |
Patrol John Molina |
Patrol Carlos Benavides |
Patrol Alveiro Torres |
Patrol Julio Díaz |
Patrol Nicolás Quintero |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 2nd May 2012
|
Nigerian Air Force |
F7-Ni |
|
Mando |
Crashed in Kaduna near
the International Airport |
Pilot
ejected |
|
|
|
|
|
Thursday 3rd May 2012
11:40
|
USAF |
F-15E Strike Eagle |
|
366th Fighter Wing
"Gunfighters"
Mountain Home AFB |
Crashed during a
routine training mission in
the United Arab
Emirates |
|
|
ACES II |
??
ejected |
??
ejected |
ACES II |
|
|
|
Friday 4th May 2012
08:35
|
USAF |
F-16 |
|
388th Fighter Wing
Hill AFB |
Crashed during routine training mission at Utah Test
and Training Range |
Pilot
ejected |
|
ACES II |
|
|
|
Friday 11th May 2012
|
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
Mirage V |
No. 7 TA Squadron
'Bandits', Southern Air Command, No. 32
(Fighter Ground Attack) Wing |
Masroor Air Base,
Karachi |
Training sortie. Crashed
shortly after take off near Sonmiani
area in Hub |
Squadron Leader Rashid Sulehri
ejected |
|
Martin-Baker OM-6 |
|
|
|
Thursday 17th May 2012
10:20 |
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
MFI-17
Mushaq |
|
Risalpur |
Mid-air collision
during routine training mission northwest of
Islamabad. Crashed onto a house
in Rashkai area of
Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. At least two civilian
casualties. |
|
|
Conventional Seat |
SP
killed |
IP
killed |
Conventional Seat |
Thursday 17th May 2012
10:20 |
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
MFI-17
Mushaq |
|
Risalpur |
Mid-air collision
during routine training mission northwest of
Islamabad. Crashed into field
in Rashkai area of
Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
|
|
Conventional Seat |
SP
killed |
IP
killed |
Conventional Seat |
|
Shaheed Officers |
Squadron Leader
Syed Masood Rizvi [Instructor]
Squadron Leader Zaigham Abbas [Instructor]
Flight Lieutenant Mustafa Shahid [trainee pilot]
Squadron Leader Moazzam Ali [trainee pilot] |
| |
Can anyone pair the crews? |
| |
More information when available |
|
|
|
|
Friday 18th
May 2012 |
Phil AF |
Aermacchi
SF-260TP |
716 |
Danilo
Atienza Air Base, Sangley Point,
Cavite province.
|
Crashed
south of Mariveles near the island of La Monja,
at the mouth of Manila Bay, Bataan,
during a training mission |
|
|
|
Major
Neil Tumaning
[Tumaneng ?]
missing |
Lieutenant
Michael Arugay
missing |
|
| |
Further details when available |
|
|
|
Friday 18th May 2012
12:15 |
Private |
Hawker Hunter Mk.58 |
N32
? AX
Confirm?? |
ATAC
Airborne Tactical Advantage Co., Newport News, Va. |
Returning
from training sortie with another jet trainer.
Crashed on final approach in Camarillo near
Naval Base Ventura
County. |
CAPT Thomas "TC" Bennett
USN (Ret)
killed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Friday 18th May 2012 |
Private |
Aero Vodochody L-39
Albatros |
55 |
Boulder City MA,
Nevada |
Crashed shortly after
take-off in the desert near Boulder City Municipal
Airport |
|
|
VS-1 |
Richard A. Winslow
passenger
killed |
Douglas E. Gilliss
pilot
killed |
VS-1 |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 23rd May 2012 |
Russia |
Antonov AN-30 |
|
|
Caught fire after endercarriage gear malfunctioned
during landing at the Czech air force base in Caslav |
23 on board. 14 Russians, 9
Czechs. 5 Russians and 1 Czech injured. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 23rd May
2012 |
Indian Army |
HAL Cheetah
[Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama] |
|
|
Crashed on the Siachen
glacier after delivering supplies to Siachen base
camp at Bhim. |
|
|
|
pilot
Major Chandrasekar Singh
killed |
Major Amit Mohindra
injured |
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 23rd May
2012 |
PAA |
Schweizer S300B |
|
|
Crashed
during routine flight into the Chenab river in
Punjab province
near Wazirabad |
 |
|
|
Major Zahid Bari
killed
body recovered on Sunday 27th |
trainee officer
Captain Irfan Ahmed
killed |
|
|
|
|
|
Monday 28th May 2012 |
USA
NATO |
AH-64
Apache |
|
12th Combat Aviation Brigade
Fort
Benning, Ga. |
Crashed while on patrol in Afghanistan |
|
|
|
Capt. John “Jay” R. Brainard III
26
Newport
killed |
Chief Warrant
Officer Five John C. Pratt
51
Springfield Va.
killed |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 30th May 2012
|
USN |
T-45
Goshawk |
|
VT-22Training Squadron 22
NAS Kingsville |
Crashed during routine
training flight on ranch land in South Texas 45
miles southwest of airfield |
|
|
Martin-Baker
SJU-17 (Mk.14)
NACES |
SP
??
ejected |
IP
??
ejected |
Martin-Baker
SJU-17 (Mk.14)
NACES |
|
|
|
Thursday 31st May 2012
17:00 |
USAF |
F-22 Raptor |
|
325th Fighter Wing
[Confirm]
Tyndall Air Force Base |
Ground incident during "touch and go" exercise. |
Pilot
OK |
|
ACES II |
|
|
|
|
Sunday 3rd June 2012 |
|
Lockheed Martin P2V Neptune |
|
Neptune Aviation Services
Missoula, Mont |
Crashed onto a forested mountainside, Hamlin Valley, southwestern
Utah during fire fighting flight dropping chemical
fire retardant on an 8,000-acre blaze |
Two
fatalities |
|
|
| |
|
Todd
Neal Tompkins
Boise, Idaho
killed |
Ronnie
Edwin Chambless
Boise, Idaho
killed |
|
|
|
|
Monday 4th June 2012
07:05 |
Força Aérea
Brasileira
FAB |
T-27 Tucano |
|
Academia da Força Aérea
(AFA) |
Inadvertent
ejection prior to take off near the end of the AFA
runway
in Pirassununga, in São Paulo |
 |
|
|
Cadete André
Rodrigues Silva
Academia da Força
Aérea
(AFA)
22
Died from injuries sustained. |
single occupant |
Martin-Baker
BR8LC |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday 5th June 2012 |
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
F-7 |
|
Samungli Air Base, Quetta |
Caught fire and exploded during repair. 3 ground
casualties |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday 10th June 2012 |
Private
[Czech Republic] |
L-29
Delfin |
OK-ATS |
Aviation Technologies
and Services Company
Zatec air base |
Believed tail section
broke away. Crashed 300 metres from an airport in
Ceradice na Lounsku, in Zatec. |
|
|
ejection system was deactivated |
Jiri Janicek
former deputy commander of the Zatec air base
killed |
Margaret Litvinov
Female
passenger badly injured. Taken to Prague's Na
Vinohradech Hospital.
Died later |
ejection system was deactivated |
|
|
|
|
Monday 11th June 2012 |
USN |
Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator
(BAMS-D),
[Naval version of RQ-4 Global Hawk]
unmanned aerial vehicle |
|
|
Lost on a
routine training flight, crashed on Maryland's
Eastern Shore near Bloodsworth, Chesapeake Bay |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday 12th June 2012
13:25
|
Pakistan Air Force
(PAF) |
M.
Dassault Mirage III |
|
No 7 TA Sqn based at Karachi
PAF
Base Masroor |
Crashed on a routine training mission in Balochistan
province near Uthal city in Lasbela district |
Squadron Leader Kashif Iqbal
ejected |
|
Martin-Baker PKOM-6 |
|
|
|
Tuesday 12th June 2012
15:35 |
Belarussian Air
Force |
Su-25 |
|
116th Air Base |
Crashed following loss of control at low altitude
two kilometres from Naviny village in Navahrudak
district, Hrodna voblast. |
Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Gridnev
military pilot 1st class
killed |
|
K-36 |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 13th June
2012 |
Columbian Army |
Mil
M-17 |
EJC-3381
170M07 |
Army Aviation Brigade |
Crashed during post maintenance flight from 20 feet
and caught fire
in the municipality of Carepa
in northwestern Antioquia department. |
1
killed
4 injured |
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
pilot
Edgar Rojas Calderón
killed |
Javier Salguero Moreno |
José Espinosa Cortés |
Jesús Carreño Manrique |
Jhon Agudelo Castaño |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 13th June 2012
18:45 |
USAF |
CV-22 Osprey |
|
1st Special Operations Wing
Hurlburt Field |
Crashed
during a routine training mission on Eglin Air Force
Base’s reservation north of Navarre |
5
injured |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Maj. Brian Luce
pilot |
Capt. Brett Cassidy
second pilot |
Tech. Sgt. Edilberto Malave
flight engineer |
Tech. Sgt. Christopher Dawson
flight engineer |
Staff Sgt. Sean McMahon
flight engineer |
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 20th June
2012 |
Sudan Air Force |
Nanchang PT-6
Trainer |
|
Air College, Port
Sudan. |
Crashed during landing
near the Air College Airport |
|
|
|
Suleiman Hassan
??
killed |
First Lieutenant Nizar
Zaher [Taher]
??
killed |
|
|
|
crew confirmation
appreciated |
|
|
|
Thursday 21st June
2012
2.45 pm (5.45pm AEST) |
Indonesian Air Force |
Fokker F-27 |
A-2708 |
2nd Squadron
Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base |
Crashed into military housing complex in Jakarta
during landing approach about 1.5 kilometres from
the runway. |
7
on board killed. Ground fatalities and injuries |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pilot
Maj. Hery |
Co-Pilot
First Lt. Paulus |
student pilot
Second Lt. Syahroni |
Capt. Agus
Haryadi |
Maj. Sgt. Sipu
Mulanto |
First Sgt.
Mulyadi |
First Sgt. Purwanto |
|
|
|
|
Friday 22nd June 2012
11:58 local |
Turkish Air Force |
McDonnell-Douglas RF-4E Phantom II |
77-0314 |
173 Filo
Malatya 7th Main Jet Base
Erhac Air Base, Malatya, Turkey |
Reported shot down by Syrian
Air Defences near Ras al Basit
, crashing into the Mediterranean Sea off Turkey's
Hatay's southern coast
in Syrian territorial
waters.
approximately
8 miles from Latakia, |
 |
 |
Martin-Baker Mk.H7AF |
|
Captain
(Yüzbaşi)
Gökhan Ertan |
Lieutenant(Teğmen)
Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy |
Martin-Baker Mk.H7AF |
Both crew were reported as missing
Bodied reported found on the 4th July 2012 |
Both bodies reported
found in the Mediterranean on 4th July 2012
[Early reports had suggested
crew rescued from water
also seen reported, "Syrian air defences shot down a
Turkish warplane and hit another in Syrian
airspace."] |
|
|
|
|
22nd June 2012 |
Fuerza Área Mexicana |
SIAI Marchetti SF.260EU |
6116 |
Colegio del Aire de la Fuerza Aérea |
Crashed
Cañada de los Lobos, Jalisco
near Ixtlahuacán River |
|
|
Martin-Baker |
??
killed |
??
killed |
Martin-Baker |
|
|
|
|
Saturday 23rd June 2012 |
Colombian Army |
Cessna Grand Caravan 208 B turboprop |
|
|
Crashed near Choconta, Cundinamarca, Columbia |
4
fatalities |
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
Lt. Wilfran
Yesid Torres |
Lt. Johan
Baron |
Cpl. Alejandro
Isaza |
Cpl.
Jhorman Deybi Rozo
passenger |
|
|
|
|
Monday 25th June 2012
16:28 |
USAF |
Beechcraft T-6A Texan II |
|
Columbus AFB |
Training flight
practicing aerobatics manoeuvres, takeoffs and
landings. Crashed, skidding along runway during
landing. |
|
|
Martin-Baker |
SP
OK |
IP
OK |
Martin-Baker |
|
|
|
Thursday 28th June 2012
09:50
|
Russian Air Force |
Sukhoi Su-27UB |
|
Besovets Air Base
Petrozavodsk Airport |
Routine flight in the
Petrozavodsk district. Believed to be a bird-strike
ingested into one of the engines. Crashed during
landing approach in northeast Karelia republic near
the Besovets airport |
|
|
Zvezda K-36 |
??
ejected |
??
ejected |
Zvezda K-36 |
|
|
|
Friday 29th June 2012
12:30 |
USN |
MH-53 |
|
|
Made an emergency landing in a paddy field near
Pohang about 230 miles southeast of Seoul and caught
fire |
All
12 on board successfully evacuated the helicopter |
|
|
|
More details when
available |
|
|
|
|
Saturday 30th June
2012 |
Private Ownership |
Aero-Vochody L-39C
Albatros |
ZU-HIT |
Heriot Aviation (Pty)
Ltd |
Crashed at the
Klerksdorp Air Show, Johannesburg, South Africa |
|
|
VS-1 |
Gian Franco Cigione
Mozzoni
49
killed |
|
VS-1 |
|
|
|
Sunday 1st July 2012
circa 18:00 |
USAF |
Lockheed C-130 Tanker
[fitted with MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting
System)] |
|
145th Airlift Wing.
Charlotte,
North Carolina Air National Guard
Peterson Air Force
Base, Colorado |
Crashed during White Draw forest fire suppression
flight in South Dakota. The aircraft had been
dropping fire retardant material |
Six on board.
Three crew injured, rescued by helicopter taken to
Custer and then by ambulance to Rapid City Hospital
4 actual fatalities. |
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Lt. Col.
Paul Mikeal
Mooresville, N.C.
42
killed |
Master Sgt.
Robert Cannon
50
Charlotte, N.C.
killed |
Major
Joseph M. McCormick
36
Belmont, N.C.
killed |
Maj. Ryan S. David
35
Boone, N.C.
killed |
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