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2000–2009 List Of Accidents And Incidents Involving Military Aircraft

This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more exhaustive lists, see the baaa-acro.com archives or the aviation-safety.net database. Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.

Aircraft terminology

Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.

For this list, the criteria used for a military aircraft will be: any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a governmental organization such as United States Department of Defense or British Armed Forces in either combat or non-combat missions. The aircraft will fall into categories such as fighter, bomber, attack, search and rescue, transport or training.

2000

March

    14 March
    Indian Air Force trainer crashed near Hyderabad, killing 1 instructor on board. His Trainee survived. Sqn Ldr Vishal Mehta was killed while trying to bail out of the trainer aircraft which developed a technical snag.

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December

2001

January

    19 January
    A Turkish Air Force CASA CN-235 crashed near Kayseri after entering a spin from which recovery was not possible, killing all 3 people on board
    27 January
    The second Antonov An-70 prototype crashed seconds after departure from Omsk airport following multiple engine failure. All 33 on board survived.

February

March

April

    1 April
    A US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II surveillance aircraft, BuNo 156511, coded 'PR-32', of VQ-1, collided with a Chinese Shenyang J-8IID fighter jet, reported as 81192, and was forced to make an emergency landing at Lingshui air base on Hainan Island, China. The U.S. crew was detained for 10 days; the Chinese fighter pilot, Wang Wei, was reported missing and presumed dead. The Chinese refused to let the Orion be flown out, so it was dismantled and transported on chartered Antonov An-124-100 of Polyot.
    4 April
    A Sudan Air Force Antonov An-24 crashed during a sandstorm in Adar Yeil, Sudan. Of the 30 people on board, 14 were killed; among them, Sudan's deputy defense minister as well as other high-ranking officers.
    12 April
    A Magyar Légierő (Hungarian Air Force) Mil Mi-24D, 579, collided with Mil Mi-24V, 715, while performing low-level formation flight over the range near Gyulafirátót, killing the crew of 579. Aircrew of 715 sustained serious injuries but survived.

May

    29 May
    Three crew are killed when a Republic of Korea Army Boeing Vertol CH-47D Chinook, of the 301st Aviation Regiment, Icheon, crashed in Seoul, South Korea while installing a torch-shaped sculpture on the Han River Olympic Bridge, built to commemorate the 1988 Olympic Games. The Chinook had just lowered the flame-shaped statuary onto the bridge central tower when its rotors hit the sculpture and then the tower. The front rotor clipped the top of the sculpture and separated from the helicopter which then fell onto the span, breaking in two, with the rear bursting into flame on the bridge and the forward half falling into the river. No other casualties were reported. The bridge had been closed during the installation work. The dead were identified as pilot Chun Hong-yop, co-pilot Nam In-ho and Sgt. 1st Class Kim Woo-soo. Army scuba divers were working to recover the wreckage. Footage of this crash is also widely available on the web.

July

October

    12 October
    A Swiss Air Force Aérospatiale Alouette III crashed after a collision with a cable in Montana Valais causing the death of all four occupants. it was the second crash after a cable collision within five months in the Swiss Air Force

December

2002

January

    9 January
    A USMC Lockheed KC-130R, BuNo 160021 of VMGR-352 (RAIDR 04) crashed into mountainous terrain while on a nighttime approach to Shamsi, Pakistan, 270 kilometers southwest of Quetta, Pakistan, killing all seven crew members on board.

February

March

    2 March
    A Grumman F-14B Tomcat, BuNo 162923, of VF-143, 'AG', from the carrier USS John F. Kennedy crashed into the Mediterranean near the Greek island of Crete, killing its pilot. The aircraft was launching from the carrier when the nose gear disintegrated – both crew ejected but the pilot was outside the envelope and was killed.

April

    20 April
    During the NAS Point Mugu air show (Point Mugu, California), the pilot and radar intercept officer were killed when their United States Navy McDonnell-Douglas QF-4S+ Phantom II, BuNo 155749, stalled and crashed after pulling away from a diamond formation. Both ejected but their chutes had insufficient time to deploy. The Navy report stated in part: "The cause of this tragic accident was the failure of the pilot to manage the energy state of the aircraft, and then to recognize a departure from controlled flight at low altitude, and apply the NATOPS recovery techniques." This Phantom II was credited with a MiG-17 kill 10 May 1972 with VF-96.
    30 April
    A McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0022, of the 40th Flight Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing, based at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, crashed in the Gulf of Mexico ~60 miles S of Panama City, Florida, while on a captive flight development test of a new air-to-air missile, killing test pilot Maj. James A. Duricy, assigned to the 40th Test Squadron, 46th Test Wing. His body was never recovered. An Accident Investigation Board determined that the crash was caused by the structural failure of the honeycomb material supporting the leading edge of the port vertical stabilizer during a high-speed test dive. A section of the leading edge, approximately 6 X 3 feet, broke away. "The doomed F-15C was flying at 24,000 feet when part of its tail broke off. Maj. James A. Duricy ejected at 900 mph and was killed. Investigators said the tail had corroded over the years. The fighter had gotten old." A static display F-15 formerly assigned to the 46th Test Wing, was dedicated to Major Duricy at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, on 9 August 2007.

May

    12 May
    The hangar housing Buran OK-1K1 in Kazakhstan collapsed, due to poor maintenance. The collapse killed eight workers and destroyed the orbiter as well as a mock-up of an Energia carrier rocket.

June

    2 June
    An Angolan Armed Forces Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashed in poor weather killing 20 of the 25 on board. Among those on board were top military officials who were going to attend a disarmament ceremony by UNITA rebels.

July

Crash of Desert Duck 744
    27 July
    A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27UB crashed during the Lviv airshow, killing 77 spectators, 28 of them children. 199 were injured. The two pilots managed to eject, but the aircraft crashed onto spectators watching the airshow from the ground. The aircraft lacked the altitude to escape the crash, hit the tribune and fell on the ground. As stated by Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the crash was caused because of engine failure. The pilots & unit commanders were later jailed.

August

September

    10 September
    United States Navy Lockheed S-3B Viking, BuNo 159402, from VS-22 and based aboard USS Harry S Truman, crashed into the sea at night 25 miles south-east of Puerto Rico. The aircraft's three crew-members were killed.

October

    3 October
    United States Navy Grumman F-14A-135-GR Tomcat, BuNo 162594, c/n 516, coded AD 136, of VF-101, suffered dual compressor stalls, causing both engines to shut down, during a routine training flight, crashing in the Gulf of Mexico on mission out of NAS Key West, Florida. The pilot and the instructor ejected safely at 5,000 feet (1,500 m) and were rescued with only minor injuries by a Sikorsky UH-3 Sea King helicopter. On 5 May 2006, one of this Tomcat's tail-fins was discovered on an isolated beach W of Cork, Ireland, having floated 4,900 miles (7,900 km.) across the Atlantic. This was the sixteenth and last Tomcat lost by VF-101 during 30 years of operation.

November

    12 November
    A Swiss Air Force PC-7 crashed at Bonaduz after a collision with a cable from the Rhäzuns-Feldis funicular, causing the death of both pilots.

2003

January

    6 January
    A US Navy F/A-18 Hornet hit an arresting gear box and skidded off the runway at NAS Lemoore, while conducting Field Carrier Landing Practice during a period of heavy fog due resulting in extremely low visibility.
    17 January
    A US Marine Corps McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18D Hornet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off of MCAS Miramar, California, due to a material failure during a functional check flight with one engine shut down. Both crewmembers ejected safely and were recovered.

February

March

    22 March
    During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, two Royal Navy Westland Sea King ASaC.7 Airborne early warning (AEW) helicopters, registration XV650, 'CU-182', and XV704, 'R-186', collided in mid-air five miles (8 km) from their aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal while one had been leaving on a mission as the other returned from the same operation. One American exchange pilot on board, a former E-2C Hawkeye pilot formerly from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One One Five, was killed. It was later revealed that the three main contributory factors noted by the Board of Inquiry coincided with the three main areas of degradation between the older AEW Mk2 and the upgraded ASaC Mk7; all three factors had been identified and mitigation put in hand, but two were cancelled by an unauthorised official and the other rejected by the RN.
    22 March
    A RAF Tornado GR4 ZG710 was shot down by a US Patriot Missile Battery, killing both crew. It later emerged that the primary cause (failure to properly integrate IFF) had been identified in 1998 but corrective action rejected.

May

    1 May
    A Boeing C-32B or Boeing 757-23A, wearing what may or may not have been a U.S. Air Force serial number, 00-9001,[citation needed] c/n 25494/611, and assigned to the 486th Flight Test Squadron, which is known to be an Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, unit, suffers a ~0300 hrs. landing accident at North Auxiliary Airfield, South Carolina, when the nose gear collapses in a heavy landing. Thought to be operated by the United States State Department (a standard deflection for the Central Intelligence Agency and their Special Operations Group (SOG) / Special Activities Division (SAD) in support of Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST) activities). Air Force spokeswoman Major Linda Pepin said that there were no serious injuries, "There was a crew of 10 on board. Two sustained minor injuries and were treated and released." The nose gear on the plane collapsed and the plane's position on the ground is not parallel to the runway. Major Pepin stated that the incident would be investigated in days to come by an Air Force safety board, "In any case where there's an incident that involves aircraft safety to ensure that whatever happened in this incident we can avoid next time." Pepin said that they do not know how long the aircraft will stay on the runway, "It's really too early to know when it will get it up and moving." North Auxiliary Airfield is used for C-17 Globemaster III training.

August

    18 August
    A Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M-4K, of 8 ELT, flying at 3000 meter (10,000 ft) altitude, during anti-aircraft artillery exercises, was shot down at 1600 hrs. within the confines of the Wicko Morskie range, near Ustka by 2K12 Kub missile. Another account ascribes the downing merely to a "technical malfunction". The pilot, Lt. Col. Andrzej Andrzejewski, safely ejected and alighted in the Baltic Sea 21 km (11 nmi (20 km; 13 mi)) from the coast, and – after one-and-half-hour spent in water – picked up by Mil Mi-14PS SAR helicopter from Siemirowice Air Base. Andrzejewski was subsequently to perish in the 23 January 2008, CASA C-295 crash.

September

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Captain Chris Stricklin ejects from his F-16 at an air show in September 2003.
    18 September
    A Tupolev Tu-160, bort number '01', of the 121st regiment, 22 heavy bombers division, on a proving flight out of Engels Air Base after the replacement of one of its four engines, crashed near Stepnoye settlement, Sovetskoye, Saratov oblast, killing the four crew. There were no armaments aboard. Just before the crash the crew reported an engine fire to ground control, after which contact with the pilots was lost. The wreckage of the bomber was found 35 km from its base. No injuries occurred on the ground. The main staff of the air force identified the dead as crew commander, Lt. Col. Yuriy Deyneko, co-pilot Maj. Oleg Fedusenko [the Russian TV channel gave this name as Fedunenko in its 1000 GMT newscast], and the navigators as Maj. Grigoriy Kolchin and Maj. Sergey Sukhorukov. This was the first Blackjack loss in 17 years of operations.

November

December

2004

February

March

June

    21 June
    Grumman F-14A Tomcat of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, flown by Capt. Darioush Yavari and Col. Ali Abou Ataa, crashed on approach to Shahid Beheshti Air Base when Yavari, an experienced Northrop F-5 pilot qualifying on the F-14, misjudged his sink rate during a no-flaps landing, undercarriage and struck the runway with enough force to flip the Tomcat onto its back, killing both crew. The probable cause was determined to be a premature rush to put the pilot in the cockpit without his having completed his flight-simulator course. The commanding officer of TFB.8, Gen. Ahmad Mieghani (himself a former F-5 pilot) resigned, but the investigative commission reinstated him, recognizing the true source of the problem.

July

August

    15 August
    A US Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion lost tail rotor authority on approach to MCAS Futenma on the island of Okinawa. This was due to improper maintenance. The failure to install a cotter pin resulted in vibrations forcing loose a bolt, thus causing separation of the tail boom from the aircraft. The aircraft proceeded to spin out of control striking a college building before hitting the ground and catching fire. The post maintenance test flight crew of 3 survived the crash with injuries.

September

    21 September
    A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk crashed on Tallil Air Base in Southern Iraq. All four crew members sustained injuries and were rescued by firefighters from the 407th Air Expeditionary Group and medical personnel from the 407 Expeditionary Medical Squadron.

November

    29 November
    A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk, crashes shortly after taking off from Fort Hood, Texas, when it struck guy-wires supporting the television antenna of KXXV, near Waco, Texas, killing all seven soldiers aboard. Conditions were foggy and the warning lights on the tower were not lit, in violation of both Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations. Victims included Brigadier General Charles B. Allen of Lawton, Oklahoma; Specialist Richard L. Brown of Stonewall, Louisiana; Chief Warrant Officer Todd T. Christmas of Wagon Mound, New Mexico; Chief Warrant Officer Doug Clapp of Greensboro, North Carolina; Chief Warrant Officer Mark W. Evans of Killeen, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer David H. Garner of Mason City, Iowa; and Colonel James M. Moore of Peabody, Massachusetts.

December

    10 December
    Two Canadian Armed Forces Canadair CT-114 Tutor trainers of 431 Snowbirds Air Demonstration Team, 114064 and 114173, flying as opposing solo '8' and '9' (unclear which was which), collided at the top of a loop during practice over Mossbank Airfield, an abandoned World War II aerodrome. Captain Miles Selby, pilot of '8' was killed instantly, but Captain Chuck Mallet was thrown clear of the wreckage of '9', released his lap belt and pulled his chute release, landing with minor injuries.

An FMA IA-63 Pampa trainer aircraft of the Argentine Air Force crashed near the runway of Base Aeronaval Punta Indio near La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. The sole pilot died in the accident. The aircraft was performing an exhibition flight for a group of Chinese entrepreneurs.

2005

January

    18 January
    During a training flight, a United States Air Force Cessna T-37B, 66-8003, Cider 21, of the 89th Flying Training Squadron, 80th Flying Training Wing collided in midair with a civilian Air Tractor AT-502B, registration number N8526M, on a cross-country ferry flight over unpopulated ranch land near Hollister, Oklahoma, USA. Both aircraft spiralled out of control. The T-37's two crew-members ejected, 1 suffering minor injuries, while the pilot and sole occupant of N8526M was killed. Both aircraft were operating under visual flight rules (VFR) at an altitude of 5,000 ft (1,520 m) at ~1128 hrs. in conditions reported as hazy and overcast; the AT-502B pilot had not established radio contact with air traffic control, and his aircraft was not equipped with a transponder, but neither was required for VFR operation in Class [Category] E airspace. The crash was primarily attributed to the failure of the pilots to "see and avoid" conflicting air traffic during VFR flight. Investigators concluded that the aircraft collided at an angle of approximately 100 degrees, and a USAF Aerospace Physiologist determined that the AT-502B's left roll cage/door structure created a blind spot that occluded the T-37B from the AT-502B's pilot's line of sight, but the T-37B's right canopy bow did not produce a blind spot for the T-37B pilots. Contributing factors included the lack of a transponder and radios on the AT-502B and the reduced visibility due to haze. Additionally, the USAF report notes that the AT-502B was flying at an inappropriate altitude for its compass heading, as visual flight rules called for cruise flight at an odd or even altitude plus 500 ft (152 m); however, given the pilot's high level of VFR experience, USAF investigators surmised that he was transitioning to a proper altitude at the time, but this hypothesis could nor be confirmed. This accident is a rare example of a midair collision in daylight VFR conditions during cruise flight distant from an airport.
    31 January
    A Colombian government Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on an anti-narcotics mission crashed in heavy fog near Manguipayan, Colombia killing all 20 on board.

March

    31 March
    A Lockheed MC-130H Combat Talon II, USAF 87-0127, c/n 5118, Wrath 11, of the 7th Special Operations Squadron, 352d Special Operations Group, RAF Mildenhall, departed Tirana-Rinas Airport, Albania, for a night training mission to work on terrain-following and avoidance skills, airdrops and landing using night-vision goggles. Flying 300 feet (91 m) above mountainous terrain, the airplane had insufficient altitude to clear a ridge and stalled as the crew attempted to climb away. The aircraft was destroyed on striking the ridge, and all nine crew members on board were killed.

April

July

August

    15 August
    A US Navy Grumman C-2A Greyhound, BuNo 162178, c/n 58, of VAW-120, made a successful belly landing at Chambers Field, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, after its undercarriage refused to extend. The aircraft had departed Norfolk for NAS Pensacola, Florida, when problems were detected. It circled for two hours to burn fuel before landing safely. None of the 25 onboard was injured. The airframe was struck off evaluated with Class A damage, as damaged beyond repair.

September

    5 September
    Sukhoi Su-33 landing on the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov at 16 27 hrs. engaged the landing trap, but its arresting wire snapped and the fighter went off the deck into the North Atlantic, pilot Sub Colonel Yuri Korneev ejecting immediately. The jet sank in ~1,000 metres of water; the pilot deployed the raft from his survival pack and was rescued by a Kamov Ka-27P rescue helicopter, and brought on board in a "normal condition." According to a source in Naval Headquarters, "it is possible that the pilot also made a mistake during the incident. The jet pilot, according to instructions, should have revved the engine after the cable broke and performed an emergency take-off. However, the fault of the pilot can be determined only after analysis from the Su-33’s black box," reported Kommersant. Capt. Of First Rank Igor Dygalo, head of the press center of the Main Staff of the Navy, said that the black box released as it was designed and surfaced after the aircraft sank. This was the first loss of the type during a "sea flight."
    9 September
    A Belgian Air Force General Dynamics/SABCA F-16A Block 20 MLU Fighting Falcon, FA-112, ex-87-0056, c/n 6H-112, of 1 Squadron, 2 Wing, crashed at the Vliehors Shooting Range. The pilot, Cdt. Fabrice Massaux, did not eject and was KWF. The Belgian four-ship formation was practising strafe runs over the Vliehors range in the Netherlands when one of the F-16s crashed at around 1055 hrs. local. The pilot was part of the 1st Squadron, based at Florennes AB in Belgium. His body was found shortly after the crash by Dutch rescue crews. The Belgian Ministry of Defense sent a team of specialists to the accident scene by Sea King helicopter to investigate the cause of the crash. A bird strike was the suspected cause.
    15 September
    Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker of the 6th Air Force, 177th Fighter Regiment, during a flight between St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, for unknown reasons veered off its course while travelling over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, entered Lithuanian airspace and crashed in Jurbarkas region, Lithuania. No one was harmed during the incident, and pilot Maj. Velery Troyanov ejected safely.

December

2006

January

    10 January
    A US Navy North American T-39 Sabreliner of VT-86, en route from Chattanooga, Tennessee to NAS Pensacola, Florida, on a low-level navigation training mission, failed to arrive at ≈1500 hrs. as expected. The wreckage was found late 11 January near LaFayette, Georgia. All four personnel on board, a Navy instructor, a Navy student, an Air Force student and a civilian contract pilot, were killed. Their identities were not immediately released.
    28 January
    An F/A-18 Hornet attempting a night landing aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) crashed into the flight deck and skidded off into the ocean about 200 kilometres south-east of Brisbane, Australia. The pilot ejected safely and was rescued from sea, but the $37 million aircraft was lost.

March

April

May

    23 May
    A Greek Lockheed Martin F-16C Block 52 Fighting Falcon, 56-0514, c/n 182–3122, of 343 Mira, and Turkish TAI F-16C Block 40 Fighting Falcon, 93-0684, c/n HC-28, of 192 Filo, based at Balikesir, but which took off from Dalaman, collided at ~1300 hrs. local (0600 hrs. ET) over the Aegean Sea as two Greek F-16s intercepted a pair of Turkish F-16s escorting an RF-4E Phantom II recce aircraft towards Crete after an alleged airspace violation. After the intercept, the fighters manoeuvered in a mock dogfight, but two collided ~12 miles off the coast of the Greek island of Karpathos. The collision was witnessed by an EgyptAir flight that was passing by. The Greek pilot, Flight Lieutenant Konstantinos Iliakis, was presumed dead, but the Turkish pilot, 1st Lieutenant Halil Ibrahim Özdemir, was rescued by a freighter under Panamanian flag, but refused to board a Greek SAR helicopter. Greek Super Puma and Turkish Cougar SAR helicopters were dispatched to the area.

June

July

    6 July
    Israel Air Force F-16I tail 489 crashed while taking off from an IDF base in the Negev desert due to a tyre bursting. The crew ejected safely.
    16 July
    A Bell 222/230 helicopter belonging to the Albanian Air Force flying from Tirana to Bari, Italy, lost contact with air traffic control over the Adriatic Sea. On board the helicopter was Gramoz Pashko, an ex-member of the Albanian Parliament who was being transported to Italy for specialized medical care after he had hit his head while diving in the sea previously during the day, leaving him in a coma. He was accompanied by his son, a doctor and three crew members. The cause of the accident could never be determined as the wreckage of the helicopter was never recovered.

September

October

November

December

    18 December
    The Lockheed Martin Polecat UAV aircraft crashed due to an "irreversible unintentional failure in the flight termination ground equipment, which caused the aircraft's automatic fail-safe flight termination mode to activate", cited by Lockheed Martin.

2007

January

February

    2 February
    A HAL Dhruv helicopter, part of the Sarang display team, lost altitude and crashed while practicing for Aero India-2007 at the Yelahanka Air Base near Bangalore, India. The pilot was severely injured, and the co-pilot was killed. The Saarang team continue their planned performance for the airshow.

April

    21 April
    A United States Navy Blue Angels McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, BuNo 162437, crashed into a residential neighborhood while performing at an airshow in Beaufort, South Carolina, in the United States, killing the pilot. Military investigators blamed the pilot for his fatal crash. A report obtained by The Associated Press said that Lieutenant Commander Kevin Davis got disoriented and crashed after not properly tensing his abdominal muscles to counter the gravitational forces of a high-speed turn.

May

    1 May
    A Dassault Mirage III of the Fuerza Aérea Argentina (Argentine Air Force) crashed at 1110 hrs. at Morón Air Base after making a low pass during a "baptism of fire" day celebration, observing the opening of combat in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. The pilot, Lt. Marcos Peretti, apparently encountered a fogbank after making the pass. He did not eject after steering the aircraft away from populated areas and was killed. Defence Minister Nilda Garré, who presided over the main celebration, ordered all Mirage aircraft grounded until a full investigation into the accident had been completed. "The causes of the accident are under investigation", said minister Garré adding that "Mirages are grounded until we determine how the accident happened; the pilot was in contact until a minute before the accident".
    6 May
    A French Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter transporting Multinational Force and Observers crashed into a truck while making an emergency landing near El-Thamad, Egypt killing all nine people on board.

June

July

    30 July
    FA-18C from VFA-195 crashed after the pilot inadvertently ejected while on emergency night approach to USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63). The aircraft continued to fly for nearly 20 minutes before crashing into the sea 400 miles SE of Guam. The pilot was safely recovered.

August

    5 August
    An Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta Scottish Aviation Bulldog AS0020 stalled and crashed in Dwejra, Gozo. The stalling was probably a result of a sudden microburst. The aircraft cartwheeled upon impact, and hit its nose, wing and tail before coming to a stop upside down. The cockpit slid open and the plane's engine got dislodged upon impact. The cartwheel led to a loss of momentum which probably saved the crew's lives. The two crew members, Mark Brincat and Kevin Borg, had minor injuries only and were treated for shock at St. Luke's Hospital after being airlifted.
    15 August
    Lts. Ryan Betton, Cameron Hall and Jerry Smith were killed when their Grumman E-2C Hawkeye, BuNo 163696, 'AD', from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 120 (VAW-120), based at the Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina at ~2300 hrs. An investigation was unable to determine the cause of the crash, according to a copy of the Judge Advocate General final report – known as a JAGMAN – obtained by Navy Times. The aircraft catapulted off the deck of the carrier USS Harry S. Truman and crashed into the water moments later. The carrier never received any emergency radio transmissions or acknowledgment by the mishap crew, according to the report.

September

November

    8 November
    A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk, operating from Aviano Air Base, Italy, crashed at 1217 hrs. near the Piave River, killing all seven on board, a mixed crew of Army and Air Force personnel. KWF are Air Force Capt. Cartize Durnham, Staff Sgt. Robert Rogers, Staff Sgt. Mark Spence, Senior Airman Kenneth Hauprich, Army Capt. Christian Skoglund and Chief Warrant Officer Two Davidangelo Alvarez. One year later, on the anniversary of the accident, members of the Aviano Air Base and Santa Lucia di Piave communities joined to unveil a special memorial honoring those U.S. military members who died in the crash and to remember those Italian World War I heroes of Piave.

December

    6 December
    A French Air Force twin-seat Dassault Rafale aircraft with a single occupant, on a training flight from the Saint-Dizier base, crashed in an uninhabited part of the Neuvic parish in the Corrèze area, with the loss of its pilot.

2008

January

    22 January
    A Pakistan Air Force Cessna T-37 Tweet trainer encountered a mechanical failure during the first solo flight of Pilot Officer Raja Jahanzeb, flying over Topi, Pakistan. Declining ejection orders to prevent loss of life on the ground, he chose to crash land the plane on a campus road of GIK Institute merely avoiding faculty buildings and blew up into pieces on crashing. The crash killed the pilot and a gardener. Raja Jahanzeb was posthumously awarded Tamgha-e-Basalat (Medal of Good Conduct).

February

    20 February
    Two McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagles of the 58th Fighter Squadron, 33d Fighter Wing, Eglin AFB, Florida, collide over the Gulf of Mexico ~50 miles (80 km) S of Tyndall AFB, Florida, killing 1st Lt. Ali Jivanjee. Capt. Tucker Hamilton ejected from the other fighter and survived. Airframes involved were F-15C-26-MC, 79-0075, c/n 0624/C144, and F-15C-32-MC, 81-0043, c/n 0793/C226. Both pilots ejected and one was rescued from the Gulf by the fishing boat Niña, owned by Bart Niquet of Lynn Haven, Florida, which was guided to the pilot by an HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft. A 1st SOW AC-130H and an MV-22 Osprey were also diverted to the scene to help search as were five Coast Guard aircraft and two vessels. An HH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile lifted the pilot from the fishing boat and evacuated him to the Eglin Hospital. The second pilot was rescued from the Gulf by an HH-60 Jayhawk from CGAS Clearwater and also taken to the Eglin Hospital. One pilot subsequently died several hours later from his injuries. An accident investigation released 25 August 2008 found that the accident was the result of pilot error and not mechanical failure. Both pilots failed to clear their flight paths and anticipate their impending high-aspect, midair impact, according to Brig. Gen. Joseph Reynes, Jr., Air Combat Command's inspector general who led the investigation. This was the first crash involving an Eglin F-15 since a fatal crash on 30 April 2002.
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89-0127, Guam

March

    3 March
    An Iraqi Air Force Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashed in a dust storm near Baiji, Iraq, killing seven members of the IAF, as well as SSgt. Christopher S. Frost, 24, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a USAF public affairs specialist who deployed to the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq from the 377th Air Base Wing at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.
    7 March
    Failure of a brake metering valve caused a Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber of the 28th Bomb Wing to roll forward into two rescue vehicles after engine shutdown at Andersen AFB, Guam. Damage to the B-1B and the two vehicles totaled $5.8 million. The "Bone" had stopped over at Andersen while transiting home to Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota from the Singapore Air Show and had taken off for home but returned after the crew declared an in-flight emergency. The aircraft stopped at designated spot off the runway to be met by emergency apparatus, but rolled into the vehicles unexpectedly.

April

    8 April
    An Antonov An-26 aircraft on a training mission, possibly belonging to Vietnam's 918 Air Transport Regiment, crashed into a field in Thanh Tri District, Hanoi, Vietnam, killing five military pilots. It had taken off from Gia Lam Airport, and crashed on its way back. The cause of the accident is unknown.

May

    21 May
    A Serbian Air Force single-seat SOKO J-22 Orao ground attack aircraft flown by Major Tomas Janik crashed near the village of Baranda. The aircraft that crashed was wearing serial 25114 and was operational with the 241 Fighter-Bomber Aviation Squadron, of 98th Air Base Lađevci. The flight went well until 1130 hours local time when pilot Major Janik experienced problems with his aircraft and was forced to eject. The aircraft went down in the vicinity of the village Baranda and was completely destroyed.

June

July

    8 July
    Three Airmen of the 319th Special Operations Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing, avoided serious injury when the leased Pilatus PC-12 in which they were training crashed at the end of the runway at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Eglin Auxiliary Field 9, at ~2330 hrs. as they attempted a landing. The initial investigation finds that the turboprop encountered wake turbulence from another aircraft that had landed shortly before the accident. As a precaution, the three crew were taken to the Eglin hospital and released the same afternoon. Hurlburt leases the PC-12 to train Airmen for the U-28A, the Air Force's version of the single-engine utility aircraft, used in combat for intra-theatre support for the special operations forces.
    30 July
    A U.S. Air Force McDonnell-Douglas F-15D Eagle, 85-0131, crashed on the Nevada Test and Training Range ~50 miles (80 km) E of Goldfield, Nevada, at ~1130 hrs. The F-15D, of the 65th Aggressor Squadron, 57th Aggressor Training Group, Nellis Air Force Base, was participating in a combat training mission as part of Exercise Red Flag 08–03. Air Force officials identified the pilot who died as Lt. Col. Thomas A. Bouley, commander of the 65th AS at Nellis. A United Kingdom Royal Air Force Tornado F.3 pilot assigned to the USAF's 64th AGRS was with him and was taken to Mike O'Callaghan Federal Hospital at Nellis. The pilot arrived ~1330 hrs. Wednesday, the Air Force said. The pilot was in stable condition and under observation. The Royal Air Force pilot's name was withheld while the investigation into the crash continues.

August

September

    24 September
    A Serbian Air Force SOKO G-4 Super Galeb basic trainer/light attack jet aircraft with serial number 23736 flown by Lt. Colonel Ištvan Kanas crashed at Batajnica Air Base. Ištvan Kanas (aged 43), pilot of Flight Test Section (Sektor za letna ispitivanja – SLI) did not survive the crash. Kanas was a top Serbian test pilot and member of the private aerobatics team and former member of Leteće Zvezde aerobatics team, officials say he was practicing for an upcoming Belgrade 2008 airshow. He was a father of two. This is the second G-4 Super Galeb ever to crash with tragic consequences after 21 years.

October

December

    8 December
    A USMC McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18D Hornet, BuNo 164017, crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, University City, coming down two miles (3 km) west of MCAS Miramar, California, just after the Marine pilot, Lieutenant Dan Neubauer, from VMFAT-101, ejected. Four fatalities on the ground resulted. The Hornet was being flown from the USS Abraham Lincoln. The commander of the fighter squadron involved in the crash, its top maintenance officer and two others were relieved of duty as a result of the crash investigation. The pilot was grounded pending a further review, Maj. Gen. Randolph Alles announced in March 2009.

2009

January

    12 January
    A Sikorsky UH-60L Blackhawk, 91-26321, of the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, Texas Army National Guard, crashed on the campus at Texas A&M University just after take-off due to tail rotor failure, killing 2nd Lt. Zachary Cook - a 2008 Texas A&M graduate and member of the Texas A&M ROTC and Aggie Corps of Cadets - and injuring four other Army personnel. The helicopter was participating in the Rudder's Rangers Annual Winter Field Training.
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C-17A Globemaster III, 06-0002, "Spirit of the Air Force", on Bagram Air Base runway after inadvertent night belly-landing in January 2009.

February

    9 February
    A leased Pilatus U-28A, 06-0692, with three personnel of the 319th Special Operations Squadron, 1st Special Operations Wing on board, based at Hurlburt Field, Florida, made a gear-up landing at Craig Field (Alabama) at Selma, Alabama (formerly Craig Air Force Base) whilst performing simulated engine failure approach, breaking off the nosewheel and causing severe damage to the nosewheel strut assembly, propeller and main undercarriage doors. A board of officers will investigate the 1415 hrs. incident in which there were no injuries. This accident has been classified as a Class A accident, indicating that fairly substantial damage was incurred. Aircraft repaired and reported flying again by 29 April 2009.
    18 February
    A Fuerza Aérea Colombiana Basler BT-67 (Colombian Air force designation: AC-47T) intelligence-gathering aircraft of the Escuadrón de Combate Táctico 113 Avion Fantasma (ghost aircraft) crashed near the Comando Aéreo de Combate No 1 Airbase at Puerto Salgar, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The aircraft was on a training flight resulting in 5 crew fatalities.

March

    25 March
    A USAF Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor, 91-4008, Raptor 07, of the 411th Flight Test Squadron, 412th Test Wing, crashed in the marshy flat land 6 miles N of Harper Dry Lake near Edwards Air Force Base, California, during a weapons integration flight test mission. The single-seater went down about 1000 hrs. (1300 hrs. ET) for unknown reasons, the officials said. The fighter was on a test mission when it crashed about 35 miles (56 km) NE of Edwards AFB, where it was stationed, the Air Force said in a news release. David Cooley, 49, a 21-year Air Force veteran who joined Lockheed Martin Corp., the aircraft's principal contractor, in 2003. Cooley, of Palmdale, was killed while flying and pronounced dead at Victor Valley Community Hospital in Victorville, California. An Air Force investigation finds that the accident occurred after the pilot lost consciousness in a high-gravity maneuver. The reports stated that during the third test of the mission the pilot appeared to have been subjected to increased physiological stress and his lack of awareness delayed a recovery maneuver. At 7,486 ft MSL, the pilot initiated ejection outside of the seat design envelope and immediately sustained fatal injuries.
    31 March
    A Polish Air Force PZL M28 (Antonov An-28TD Bryza 1TD) crashed into trees on final approach to an airfield near Gdynia, Poland. The aircraft was a routine training flight simulating landing on one engine resulting to 4 crew fatalities.

April

    6 April
    An Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crashed in Bandung, Indonesia killing all 24 occupants on board. The cause of the incident was said to be heavy rain. The aircraft reportedly crashed into a hangar during its landing procedure and killed all on board. The casualties include: 6 crew, an instructor and 17 special forces trainee personnel.
    10 April
    A Kenyan Airforce Harbin Y-12 crashed into a hillside on approaching an airstrip near Marsabit, Eastern Province, Kenya killing 14 personnel.
    26 April
    The third flying prototype of the Sukhoi Su-35, 04 (?), was destroyed during a high-speed taxi test just before its first flight at Dzemgi Airport near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Aircraft apparently ran off end of runway, hits obstacle, burns, destroying it. Test pilot Eugene Frolov ejected safely and was unhurt. This was actually the fourth prototype, but 03 served purely for ground testing.
    30 April
    An Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI crashed in the Pokhran region of Rajasthan after it took off from Pune during its routine sortie, killing one of its two pilots. This was the first crash of the Su-30MKI since its induction in the IAF.

May

    3 May
    A Venezuelan Army Mil Mi-17 Hip helicopter crashed on a border patrol with Colombia with 17 fatalities including the Venezuelan General Domingo Faneite. The accident occurred near the town of El Alto de Rubio, in Táchira state, Venezuela.
    4 May
    A Russian Navy Kamov Kamov Ka-27 (Helix) Helicopter landing on the Baltic Fleet Frigate Yaroslav Mudryi, the main-rotor made contact with the ship superstructure, crashed on the deck and then rolled over the side into the sea. The 5 crew from the Kamov helicopter were successfully rescued from the sea.
    15 May
    An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-27 Flogger crashed shortly after take-off and the pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft. The accident occurred near the Konkani village, Jodhpur, India and resulted in injuries to 7 local villagers.

June

    4 June
    A Hellenic Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon, 93-1059, '059', of the 347 Fighter Squadron based at Nea Anchialos Airforce Base crashed near the village of Michalitsi part of the Tzoumerka National Park, Ioannina, Greece. The aircraft, flying with another F-16 from the 111th Combat Wing, suffered a bird strike, and engine failure forced the pilot to eject; he survived uninjured.
    9 June
    An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 Cline transport aircraft crashed near a village in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh killing 13 defence personnel. The aircraft crashed over the Rinchi Hill above Heyo village, about 30 km from Mechuka advance landing ground in the district located about 60 km from the Indo-Chinese Line of Actual Control. Among the seven IAF men and six Army personnel on board the ill-fated aircraft were two wing commanders, two squadron leaders and a flight lieutenant.
    18 June
    An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-21 Bison from the Chabua Air Force Station, Assam, India crashed due to a technical fault while on a routine training flight, the pilot successfully ejecting from the aircraft.

July

    2 July
    A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F.3 crashed near the Rest and Be Thankful beauty spot in Glen Kinglass, Arrochar, Scotland. The aircraft was on a routine training flight from No. 43 Squadron RAF Leuchars in Fife resulting in 2 crew killed in the accident. The crew were pilot Kenneth Thompson and weapons systems officer Nigel Morton.
    3 July
    A Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashed at Chapar Feroze Khel near Peshawar, Pakistan due to a technical fault resulting in 26 fatalities.
    7 July
    A Serbian Air Force MiG-29 crashed while performing aerobatic manoeuvres in preparation for an upcoming airshow, killing the pilot Lt. Col. Rade Randjelovic and a soldier on the ground, while injuring another.
    17 July

A Fuerza Aérea Venezolana Cessna T206H (FAV-2807) flying from Puerto Ayacucho to La Esmeralda, Estado Amazonas, Venezuela crashed into the hillside of El Duida, 20 miles (32 km) from its destination at La Esmeralda airport, killing the 3 crew members.

    19 July
    A People's Liberation Army Air Force Xian JH-7 (FBC-1 Flying Leopard) crashed near the Taonan tactical training base in Jilin province while on a joint counter-terrorism exercises with Russia resulting in the death of 2 crew.
    20 July

A Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR.4 operating with RAF No. 1 Squadron crashed on take-off at Kandahār International Airport in Afghanistan and the two crew members successfully eject from the aircraft.

    20 July
    An IAI Kfir jet fighter crashed near the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The Israeli pilots operating the aircraft were unharmed in the incident, but the jet itself was destroyed. Israel Aerospace Industries said in a statement that the aircraft was flying a refresher flight, and that the aircraft did not come to a stop on the landing strip, landing outside it. The director of the Israel Aerospace Industries announced that an investigation into the incident had already begun and that a panel to probe the crash had been appointed.

August

    16 August
    Two Russian Knights air display Sukhoi Su-27 jets collided whilst training, killing one pilot, Igor Tkachenko, and injuring several civilians on the ground. The accident occurred near Zhukovsky Airfield, outside of Moscow.
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Fire damaged USAF E-3C, 83-0008, on Nellis AFB, Nevada, ramp.
    30 August
    A Belarusian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker was lost during Radom Airshow 2009, Poland. The aircraft crashed near the Małęczyn village, outside the military air base the event took place on. No civilian was injured. There was no damage reported on the ground. The crew of two did not eject and were found dead by the rescue teams.

September

    12 September
    An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-21 Bison from the Bhatinda Airforce Station, Punjab, India crashed due to a technical fault near the village of Muktsar-Bhatinda in the Punjab Provence, Pakistan killing the pilot.
    28 September
    A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) NAMC YS-11 a twin-engined turboprop transport crashed while landing at JMSDF Ozuki Air Field in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The landing in light rain, the aircraft suffered an overshoot of the runway and crashed through the airfield perimeter fence, crossing a service road and plunged nose-first into a rice field. The 11 JMSDF crew members of the aircraft were uninjured and the NAMC YS-11 aircraft suffered bent propellers.

October

    7 October
    A Libyan Air Force Mikoyan MiG-23 Flogger crashed while taking part during an airshow for the Third Libyan Aviation Exhibition, LAVEX 2009 held at Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli, Libya. The aircraft travelling at low-level hit a one-storey house in the suburb of Souq Al-Jumaa in Tripoli killing the 2 crew and injuring two civilians.
    15 October
    A United States Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon, 91-0365, was lost during a routine night flying exercise from the 77th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing, based at the Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina when it collided mid-air with F-16C 91-0364. The two aircraft from the 20th Fighter Wing were training with night vision equipment and practising combat tactics when the accident occurred 40 miles (64 km) east of Folly Beach, South Carolina at ~2030 hrs. The United States Coast Guard commenced a search for a missing aircraft in the North Atlantic of the coast of South Carolina while the second aircraft, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant, despite damage was able to land at Charleston Air Force Base. on 16 October, Coast Guard searchers found crash debris in the Atlantic Ocean believed to belong to the missing F-16. "The Coast Guard has found some debris in the ocean that is apparently from our missing F-16", said Robert Sexton, the Shaw Air Force Base Public Affairs chief in Sumter, South Carolina. The other pilot, Capt. Nicholas Giglio, is missing. "They have not yet found any sign of the pilot and the search continues", Mr. Sexton said. No one witnessed what happened to Captain Giglio after the collision.
    23 October
    An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-27 flying from the Hasimara Air Force Base, Eastern Air Command crashes near New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. The aircraft on a routine training exercise suffered a technical fault and an on-board engine fire shortly after take-off. After a successful ejection the pilot parachuted into a nearby tea estate and the aircraft crashed into a nearby river bank injuring two children.
    29 October
    A Força Aérea Brasileira Cessna 208 FAB-2725 flying from Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre to Tabatinga crash-landed in the Ituí River a small tributary of the Rio Javari, Amazonas State. The twin-engined turboprop aircraft of the 7º Esquadrão de Transporte Aéreo from Base Aérea de Manaus was transporting officials from Brazilian Ministry of Health participating in a vaccination programme when the aircraft crashed landed between the Amazonian villages of Aurelius and New River. The aircraft was later found by indigenous villagers of the region, discovering 9 survivors and 2 dead crew members.

November

    27 November
    A Sri Lanka Air Force Mil Mi-24 Helicopter (CH635) engaged on a training mission, crashed 5 km north of Buttala(310 km south-east of Colombo) at approximately 1330 HRS due to technical failure. Prior to the crash the pilot reported a power failure to the tail rotor. Pilot, Co-Pilot and 2 door gunners died in this incident.
    30 November
    An Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI crashed near Jethagaon in Jaisalmer of Rajasthan after it took off from Jodhpur. The crash happened while returning from a regular training mission. Both pilots were unharmed.

December

    16 December
    Pakistan Air Force Dassault Mirage III fighter aircraft crashed during a training mission due to a technical fault. The pilot managed to eject safely, landing in the Durrab Lake, (Kallar Kahar) and was rescued by a boat.

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