(T) February 7 - Around 20 km south of Leningrad . A Tupolev Tu-104 of the Soviet Navy operated under the registration number CCCP-42332 crashed shortly after taking off from a height of about 50 m. The causes were the wrong allocation of seats for the passengers and the sliding of unsecured cargo. All 51 inmates perished.
(A) On May 22nd, at an air show at the US Air Base near Frankfurt ( Hesse , Germany ), a Canadian F-104 Starfighter crashed into asix-person car drivingon the B 44 . The pilot of the machine was able to save himself with the ejection seat. Five of the occupants of the car died instantly, the sixth, a young woman, died in the hospital from her most severe burns after 81 days. At the crash site reminded to 2005, a cross on the roadside of the victims of the accident flight day from Frankfurt. This cross is now in the rooms of the Frankfurt Hope Community. A new white cross was set up nearby (see also the Frankfurt flight conference ) .50.066714 8.650795
On June 27, a Mirage III R of the French Armée de l'air (registration number 342/33-CR) collided between Assmannshardt and Birkenhardt near Biberach an der Riss with a private plane of the type Partenavia P.68 (D-GFPH) . In the crash, the 3 occupants of both aircraft died and 4 residents of a house on the ground into which the Mirage crashed.
1984
May 28 - An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the Dutch Air Force hit a building at the hospital in Linz on the Rhine and crashed into a forest. The pilot and a local resident were killed. Numerous people were injured by debris flying around.
June 3 - At the Flugsportclub Großostheim, a British high-flyer of the type Harrier went up in flames due to a technical defect during a fly at the airfield Aschaffenburg (Großostheim-Ringheim) about 30 meters above the runway . The pilot steered the plane away from the spectators and saved himself with the ejection seat. A spectator was hit by the falling ejection seat and died instantly.
June 27th - A Pilatus PC-6 “Turbo Porter” of the Austrian Armed Forces crashed during airborne training for Jäger Battalion 25 above Goritschach (municipality of Ebenthal in Carinthia ) and crashed onto a rock. All 7 soldiers on board were killed. A firefighter had a fatal accident during the rescue work. The machine had started from the Glainach military training area near Ferlach and, due to the change in the seated / crouching position of those flying with it, got into a non-flyable state, which led to the crash.
July 6th - A tornado of the German Air Force crashed near Holzkirchen , killing both crew members. A connection with the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the radio station of Radio Free Europe near Valley was suspected.
August 29 - When the second prototype of the Rockwell B-1A bomb crashed on August 29, 1984 during a test flight, a pilot lost his life. Its seat had been torn from its mounts on impact. The other two crew members in the escape pod survived seriously injured. The capsule was blown off, but the parachute failed. The additional inflatable air cushions could not develop their effect due to the angle of impact.
October 21 - A German Air Force tornado (license plates 44 + 47 ) crashed in a failed air-to-ground attack during a training exercise on the Otterburn Range in England. Both crew members were killed. As early as 1983, a Dutch Air Force starfighter crashed while attacking the same ground target. Both accidents were recorded by cameras installed in the training area.
1987
March 30th - Hünxe , Wesel district , North Rhine-Westphalia. Shortly after take-off from Bruges airfield around 9:00 a.m., the pilot lost control of the British RAF's Panavia Tornado ( GR1 ZD894) fighter aircraft . The machine then crashed into a field in the Lower Rhine community of Hünxe near Wesel, not far from the former Bucholtwelmen oil refinery. Both pilots were able to save themselves with the ejection seat, whereby the navigator suffered an arm fracture. The pilot had to be rescued from the treetops with the help of a rescue helicopter. As part of the aircraft accident investigation , a defective linkage of the right elevator (taileron) was found to be the cause of the crash. The financial damage to neighboring buildings and contamination caused by the crash, the crash site and the like. a. with kerosene, estimated at around £ 300,000.
October 20 - Indianapolis , Indiana , USA. A Corsair II of the US Air Force tried an emergency landing on after an engine failure Indianapolis Airport . The landing maneuver failed, the pilot saved himself with the ejection seat, and the driverless machine crashed into a hotel . Nine hotel employees were killed and one hotel guest later succumbed to his injuries.
(T) On August 17, 1988, a Lockheed C-130B Hercules of the Pakistani Air Force with the registration number 23494 crashed shortly after take-off near Bahawalpur . All 30 inmates died, including Pakistani President Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq , the US ambassador, a US general and 17 senior Pakistani military personnel. The cause has not been clearly clarified, technical failure or sabotage is assumed.
On September 7, a SEPECAT Jaguar attack aircraft of the Royal Air Force crashed in the Bad Wildbad district of Calmbach , Germany . The cause was the stripping of a high-voltage line. The pilot died, the copilot was able to save himself with an ejector seat. At this point in time, national youth games were taking place a few hundred meters away .
April 17th - Karlsruhe , Germany . In the collision of two Canadian military aircraft of the type McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 and their crash within the urban area of Karlsruhe, a pilot died whose parachute had not opened. There were two more injured.
(T) 29 November - The North 262C-62 of the Air Force of Gabon with the indicator TR-KJB and the manufacturing number 90 was in an incident in Libreville irreparably destroyed. The type of accident and whether people were harmed is not known.
December 6th - An Aermacchi MB-326 of the Italian Air Force crashed into a school in Casalecchio di Reno near Bologna; twelve students died and dozen were seriously injured. The pilot was able to save himself with the ejector seat.
(T) March 25 - A Hindustan Aeronautics HAL 748 of the Indian Air Force (IAF H-1513) rose at the start of the air base Yelahanka little, reaching a height of only 50 meters. It collided with a stone wall, fell and caught fire. All 28 occupants, 3 crew members and 25 passengers were killed.
(T) On October 5, an engine caught fire on a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU A-1324) shortly after taking off from Jakarta-Halim Airport ( Indonesia ). Apparently control of the plane was lost and it crashed into a training center 3 kilometers south of the airport. Of the 134 occupants, 133 were killed, all 12 crew members and 121 passengers, and 2 people were killed on the ground. This was the third worst accident involving a Hercules in terms of the number of fatalities.
(T) October 22nd - The pilot of an Alouette III died when he took off with his helicopter in Dübendorf (Switzerland) while the adjustment of the tail rotor was still locked. The Luftwaffe launch procedure actually requires a brief hover during which this could be noticed.
(T) On September 26, 1992, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF911) crashed into a swamp with mangrove trees shortly after takeoff. Engine 2 failed immediately after take-off, followed shortly afterwards by a second. The pilots wanted to ditch a canal, but a third engine failure occurred. The plane crashed vertically 7 kilometers west of the takeoff airport in Lagos ( Nigeria ). The machine was on its way to Kaduna (Nigeria) and Jos . All 159 occupants, 8 crew members and 151 passengers were killed; this is the official information. However, it is likely that there were more people on board as no cargo documents were issued. Further reports indicate 163 inmates, another 174 and even 200 people, since among the dead were unidentified children as well as military personnel who were practically “hitchhiking”. In any case, this was the most serious Lockheed Hercules accident in terms of the number of fatalities.
(T) June 2 - Mull of Kintyre , Scotland , UK . A British Army helicopter of the type Boeing CH-47C Chinook crashed into a hilltop on the Scottish cliffs shortly after 6 p.m. local time in thick fog and exploded. The Chinook had started from Aldergrove near Belfast , Northern Ireland at 5:30 p.m. with 25 anti-terror experts and four crew members on board. The aim of the members of the British Domestic Intelligence Service ( MI5 ), the army and other specialists was to attend a conference of security forces in Fort George near Inverness . All inmates died. Defense Secretary John Hutton publicly affirmed on December 8, 2008 that responsibility was initially unilaterally assigned to the two pilots (high speed and low altitude in fog) .
(T) June 7th - One of the two Let L-410s of the Latvian Air Force (146) crashed near Lielvārde , the former 325/53 + 06 of the NVA or Air Force. The two-man crew was killed when a prohibited barrel roll failed to fly at a height of 200 meters.
(T) On 22 October 1995, a crashed Transall C-160 of the Air Force . The aircraft with the registration number 50 + 43 of Lufttransportgeschwader 61 was on its way to the United States of America. The aircraft landed in Ponta Delgada in the Azores to refuel before it was supposed to fly on to St. John's ( Newfoundland , Canada). After an unsuccessful abortion due to an engine failure, she touched a high-voltage pylon and fell into the sea. All seven crew members were killed.
USAF Boeing CT-43A near Dubrovnik on April 3, 1996
(T) On February 26, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Sudanese Air Force (license plate unknown) crashed in flames near Jabal Awliya ( Sudan , 25 miles south of Khartoum) ten minutes before landing at Khartoum Airport . All 91 occupants, 5 crew members and 86 passengers were killed.
(T) On July 15, 1996, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Belgian Air Force (CH-06) had an accident while landing at Eindhoven Airport ( Netherlands ). The machine had been chartered by the Dutch Air Force . After several bird strikes , the left engines 1 and 2 lost power, but the crew switched off engine 3. The plane crashed next to the runway. However, the fire brigade at Eindhoven Airport only noticed after 23 minutes that there were passengers in the cabin. Of the 41 occupants, 34 were killed, including all 4 crew members and 30 passengers; only 7 passengers survived.
(T) On December 24, a Hindustan Aeronautics HAL 748 of the Indian Air Force (IAF H-1032) crashed near Dubagunta, India . First the left engine broke off and then the left wing. All 22 occupants, 4 crew members and 18 passengers were killed.
1997
Salvage work after the Antonov An-124 crash in Irkutsk on December 5, 1997
(T) September 13 - Namibia . Over the Atlantic , around 120 km west of Namibia, a Tupolev Tu-154 of the German Air Force collided with a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter of the US Air Force . The German machine was at the wrong altitude, which was not noticed by flight control. All 24 people on board the Tupolev and all 9 of the starlifters died.
(A) (T) December 5 - Irkutsk , Russia . An Antonov An-124 cargo plane of the Russian Air Force crashed into a residential area around 20 seconds after take-off due to the failure of two of the four engines. Several houses were destroyed by the subsequent fire. All 23 people on board the aircraft and 45 on the ground died (see also crash of an Antonov An-124 in Irkutsk ) .
(A) February 3 - Italy . A US reconnaissance jet of the type EA-6B Prowler severed the suspension cable of a cabin cable car in the winter sports resort Cavalese while flying low- the gondola fell 100 meters, all 20 occupants died. The pilot was able tolandthe almost undamaged aircraft on his base in Aviano . It is not known why the plane was flying low (see the Cavalese cable car accident ).
(T) February 12 - Sudan . An Antonov An-26 of the Sudanese Air Force shot over the runway on landing in Nasir and slipped into a river. 26 of the 57 inmates died, including a Vice President of Sudan and other members of the government.
April 7th - Switzerland . An F / A-18 of the Swiss Air Force crashed in the area of Crans-Montana from during an air combat exercise. Both pilots died.
(T) May 5 - Peru . A Boeing 737 of the Peruvian Air Force leased by the oil company Occidental Petroleum crashed shortly before its destination on the flight from Iquitos to Andoas . 74 people died and 13 survived.
October 14 - Switzerland . In Oberuzwil overthrew Pilatus PC-9 of the Swiss Air Force with the registration C-404 from where the pilot was killed. The reason for the crash was a collision with the aircraft of the same type with the registration number C-405, which was able to make an emergency landing in Altenrhein.
(T) March 7 - An Antonov An-32 of the Indian Air Force crashed while approaching the airport New Delhi to a suburb. All 18 occupants of the aircraft and three people on the ground died.
March 14th - Hamburg-Hummelsbüttel, Hamburg , Germany . A Bell UH-1D of the German Armed Forces in action as a SAR-71 rescue helicopter crashed while it was on its way to an operation. After the mission was aborted by the rescue control center, the pilot initiated a reversing maneuver in which he went into an almost vertical climb and the aircraft completely lost airspeed. The subsequent descent resulted in an impact of the main rotor blades into parts of the aircraft cell. The reason was human error, as the pilot had a blood alcohol level of 1.5 per mille. All 5 crew members lost their lives.
May 3 - Jalandhar , India . An Indian MiG-21 crashed into a two-story bank. At least seven people died in the accident.
Air day accident in Lviv
(A) July 27 - Lviv , Ukraine . During an air show, a Sukhoi Su-27 crashedinto the audience and caught fire. The pilots were able to save themselves with the ejection seat, but85 spectatorsdied in the Lviv flight conference accident , and 115 others were injured, some seriously.
(T) August 19 - Chankala , Chechnya . A Mil Mi-26 helicopter was damaged by an anti-aircraft missile and crashed near Chankala Airport . 115 of the 147 people on board died; this was the worst helicopter accident to date.
(T) December 21 - A Sikorsky CH-53 of the Bundeswehr crashed into an empty building on the outskirts of Kabul . Seven Bundeswehr soldiers died and the machine could not be shot down. The exact number of possible civilian casualties on the ground was not known; first reports reported a total of 14 deaths.
2003
(T) February 19 - Iran . An Iranian IL-76MD with 257 soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and 18 crew members on board hit a mountain and all 275 people were killed. The machine was on the flight from Zahedan to Kerman .
(T) September 11 - A military helicopter with 17 people on board, including the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Africa, Petros VII , crashed about 30 kilometers from its destination on the way from Thessaloniki to Mount Athos . None of the inmates survived.
December 9th - Lagerlechfeld . Shortly after take-off, a tornado from the 32 ECR fighter-bomber squadron crashed into a forest area near Kaufering . The pilot and weapons systems officer were killed in the accident. The visibility conditions were poor on the day of the accident.
2005
(T) On June 29, a transport helicopters was CH-47 Chinook of US forces in the Afghan province of Kunar with an armor weapon shot down. At least 16 soldiers were killed, several are missing.
(T) On August 16, 17 Spanish soldiers died in the crash of a military helicopter of the type Eurocopter AS 532UL Cougar of the Spanish Army Aviation (HU.21L-57) . The helicopter was in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF protection force and crashed in the morning near Herat while it was being shot at with anti-aircraft fire from a nearby village. Another Spanish helicopter of the same type (HU.21L-59) had to make an emergency landing in the vicinity after being shot at, with 5 injured. The machine was also destroyed.
(T) On December 6, 2005, a Lockheed C-130E Hercules of the Iranian Air Force (IrAF 5-8519) crashed into a ten-story apartment building in the Azari residential area while approaching Tehran's Mehrabad Airport ( Iran ). Eight minutes after take-off, the crew reported engine problems with engine 4 (far right) and had turned around for an emergency landing. A total of 106 people were killed, all 94 occupants, 10 crew members and 84 passengers; 12 more people were killed in the skyscraper.
2006
(T) 19 January - An Antonov An-24 of the Slovak Army bounced around 19.30 during the landing approach to Košice (Eastern Slovakia) in the fog against a 700-meter high mountain in an inaccessible forest area to the northeast Hungarian community Hejce belongs. The machine had mostly Slovak KFOR soldiers on board, who flew home from Pristina after six months of deployment in Kosovo . Of the 45 passengers and crew on board, only one person survived.
(T) On May 5, a burned Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Belgian Air Force (CH-02) on the Brussels Airport ( Belgium completely). A fire broke out in the maintenance hangar of the Belgian airline Sabena , which could only be brought under control 3 hours later after the roof collapsed. Three Airbus A320s from various airlines also burned out. People were not harmed.
November 14 - A Chengdu J-7 fighter-bomber belonging to the Air Forces of the People's Republic of China was damaged by a bird strike while approaching Gansu Province . In order not to endanger settlements in the approach lane, the pilot stayed in the plane and attempted an emergency landing. The plane exploded when it hit a field a few hundred meters from the runway. Pilot Li Jianying was killed and there were no further losses.
2007
April 12th - A tornado of the German Air Force collided with a mountain flank on a training flight in Lauterbrunnen . The pilot was killed, the weapons systems officer was seriously injured. After refueling at the Emmen military airfield , the plane flew into the Lauterbrunnen valley. The cause of the accident was the unsuitable flight tactics: Swiss military pilots avoid the valley because of the large number of paragliders, and after refueling the aircraft was too heavy to climb to the level of the Äbeni Flue quickly enough .
(T) May 6 - Near El Thamad ( Sinai Peninsula ), Egypt . A DHC-6 Twin Otter of the French Air Force, which was used as a liaison aircraft on behalf of the UN , collided with a truck during an emergency landing on a country road. All nine occupants were killed.
2008
(T) January 23 - A machine of the Polish Air Force of the type CASA C-295M crashed on approach to the airport in Mirosławiec for an unknown cause. All 20 inmates, 16 high-ranking officers and four crew members were killed.
December 8 - A McDonnell Douglas F-18 crashed into a residential area in San Diego . Four people were killed, the pilot got out of the ejector seat and survived slightly injured.
2009
(T) On 20 May 2009, a flying Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules of the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU A-1325) during the approach to the military airfield Iswahyudi in the city Madiun ( Indonesia ) in four houses caught fire and skidded in a rice field. A total of 99 people were killed, 2 on the ground and 97 of the 112 occupants (14 crew members and 98 passengers).
(T) October 10 - A UN peacekeeping force reconnaissance plane CASA 212 crashed into a mountain on a routine surveillance flight over Haiti near the border with the Dominican Republic . All eleven inmates, UN soldiers from Uruguay and Jordan , were killed.
2010
Debris from the Polish government machine that crashed in Smolensk
(T) July 26 - A Lockheed C-130 military aircraft crashed in thick fog at Guelmim military airfield in Morocco , 78 of the 81 occupants died.
August 20 - A BAE Hawk crashed into a field near the airport as part of the UK's Bournemouth Air Festival. The pilot, a member of the Red Arrows , was killed. Spectators were not injured.
(T) September 2 - A CASA C-212 military aircraft launched in Santiago de Chile crashed into the sea after two failed attempts to land at the airport on Robinson Crusoe Island (Juan Fernández Archipelago), killing all 21 occupants came. Strong wind gusts were suspected as the cause of the crash.
(T) December 25 - An Antonov An-72 military plane crashed near the town of Shymkent, not far from the border with Uzbekistan . All 27 inmates were killed.
(T) May 28 - An Mi-8 helicopter belonging to the Russian Air Force Military Academy crashed in Saratov Oblast after technical problems. The flight instructor and the student pilot were able to jump off with parachutes, the on-board technician was killed in the crash.
(T) May 17 - At least 22 people were killed in the crash of an Antonov An-74 of the Laotian Air Force in the northeastern province of Xieng Khouang . Among the dead were several high-ranking politicians in the country who were on their way to a memorial service. During the crash, u. a. the Lao Defense Minister and Vice Prime Minister Duangchay Phichit, the Mayor of Vientiane Soukan Mahalat and the Minister of Public Security Thongban Saengaphon perished. Three passengers survived the crash.
(T) December 12 - A Sri Lanka Air Force Antonov An-32B had an accident in Hokandara, Sri Lanka . All five inmates died.
2015
January 26 - A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed eight seconds after take-off at Base Aérea de Los Llanos in Spain . The two Greek pilots and a total of nine French soldiers died. The reason was the position of the rudder trim to full deflection of 12 ° to the right, which, contrary to the "before take-off procedures", had not been brought into the neutral position.
January 31 - A MiG-21 of the Indian Air Force crashed after takeoff west of Jamnagar from. The pilot saved himself with the ejection seat.
February 24 - All four pilots were killed in the crash of two McDonnell RF-4E reconnaissance aircraft on a night training flight in the eastern Anatolian province of Malatya in Turkey . The explosion described by eyewitnesses could indicate an air collision.
(T) March 11 - A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with seven Marines and four Air Force soldiers on board crashed during a training flight from Eglin Air Force Base in the northwest of the US state of Florida .
(T) March 24 - A Dornier Do 228 observation aircraft of the Indian Naval Aviation (310 Naval Air Squadron) crashed into the Arabian Sea about 50 km south-southwest of Goa during a training flight . One of the three crew members was rescued, the other two are missing.
May 8 - A MiG-27 of the Indian Air Force crashed in West Bengal from Alipurduar. The pilot saved himself with the ejection seat, but 2 civilians were killed on the ground.
May 8 - In Naltar Valley in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan , a helicopter crashed type Mi-17 of the Pakistani army from. Seven people, including Domingo D. Lucenario Jr, Ambassador of the Philippines to Pakistan, and Leif Larsen, Ambassador of Norway to Pakistan, were killed. A technical problem is currently assumed to be the cause.
(A) (T) May 9 - About 1.5 km north of Seville airport , an Airbus A400M transport aircraft crashedshortly after taking off on a testflight. On board were six Spanish crew members from the manufacturer, four of whom were killed and twosurvived the crash seriously injured.
June 4 - In Russia's Astrakhan region , a MiG-29 crashed for technical reasons. The two crew members were able to save themselves.
(T) On June 30, an approximately 50-year-old Lockheed C-130B Hercules of the Indonesian Air Force (A-1310) crashed into a residential area in Medan on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after taking off 4.7 kilometers southwest of the takeoff airport Polonia . The pilots had reported problems and announced a turnaround. All 113 occupants were killed, 12 crew members and 122 passengers. Numerous houses were also destroyed and another 17 people were killed there. With a total of 139 deaths, this was the third worst accident involving a Hercules, measured by the number of fatalities (see also plane crash in Medan 2015 ) .
July 7 - North of Charleston , South Carolina , an F-16 fighter jet collided with a Cessna 150 . The pilot of the military plane survived, the two people in the Cessna were killed.
July 14 - In the Khabarovsk region of Russia's far east , a Tupolev Tu-95 long-range bomber crashed for unknown reasons. Of the seven crew members who parachuted, two were killed.
August 2 - A Mi-28N helicopter crashed during a demonstration at the Dubrovichi test site in the Ryazan region of central Russia . One of the pilots was killed and the other seriously injured.
August 6 - In Mansehra district of Pakistan , a helicopters crashed Mil Mi-17 of the Pakistani army from. All twelve people on board died. Bad weather conditions were cited as the cause of the accident.
August 22 - At an air show at Shoreham Airfield near Brighton , a private Hawker Hunter T7 crashed onto the A27 on the northern edge of the airport. Eleven people were killed and at least 14 were slightly injured. The pilot came to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
August 25 - A MiG-21 of the Indian Air Force crashed after taking off from the Srinagar base in Kashmir . The pilot saved himself with the ejection seat.
October 14 - An F / A-18 of the Swiss Air Force crashed in the area of the municipality of Glamondans in the French Jura. The pilot was able to save himself.
Oct. 21 - A Einsitzer- F / A-18 of the United States Marine Corps (VMFA-232) crashed after taking off from RAF Lakenheath from in England. The pilot died although the ejection seat was still deployed. The machine was one of six machines that had been on their return flight to their Miramar base after being stationed in Bahrain for a mission in Syria .
(T) February 26 - A CASA CN235-220M of the Malaysian Air Force (registration number M44-07 ) launched at Kuala Lumpur Airport by Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah in shallow marsh waters off the coast of the Malaysian district of Kuala Selangor . The machine caught fire. All eight crew members survived the accident, but a fisherman drowned trying to help them.
May 18 - In Guam crashed a B-52 of the US Air Force after launch; the seven men of the crew were able to save themselves.
May 24 - An Iranian machine of the type MiG-29 crashed; the pilot was killed.
June 7 - A Russian Knights Su-27 crashed near Moscow , killing the pilot.
June 19 - In western Syria , a MiG-21 had an accident while attempting an emergency landing after take-off. The pilot and two people on the ground were killed.
July 5 - A Turkish Sikorsky S-70 crashed near the Black Sea in Giresun province . 7 out of 10 people in the helicopter were killed.
July 6 - A Libyan MiG-23 crashed west of Benghazi; the pilot was killed.
(T) On July 11, 2016, a Lockheed C-130H Hercules of the Portuguese Air Force (16804) came off the runway to the left and then to the right during take-off acceleration at the Montijo military airfield , caught fire and fell almost 1,500 meters behind the runway . Three of seven crew members died and four others were injured.
(T) July 22 - In the Bay of Bengal , an Indian An-32 transport plane (registration number K2743 ) disappeared on a supply flight from Chennai to Port Blair . A total of 23 people were on board Flight AF-330, operated by Squadron 33, including 8 civil servants of members of the armed forces .
(T) December 19 - An Ilyushin Il-18 of the Russian Air Force (registration number RF-91821) had an accident with 32 members of the army and a crew of seven on board 30 kilometers from its destination airport in Tiksi ( Sakha / Yakutia ). Initial information spoke of 3 seriously injured and 13 other moderately injured people. The plane broke into three parts.
December 21 - A Beechcraft King Air 200T of the Malaysian Air Force (registration number M41-03 ) had an accident after a training flight while landing at RMAF Base Butterworth . The pilot was killed and the three other occupants were injured. The machine was completely destroyed.
(T) May 30 - A military transport of the armed forces of Nepal of the type PZL M28 Skytruck landed at Bajura airport next to the runway. In the incident, the commander was killed, the co-pilot and another inmate were injured.
(T) June 7 - A military transport of the army of Myanmar type Shaanxi Y-8 (a Chinese type of aircraft on a series of older Soviet Antonov-machine based) started from Myeik towards Rangoon with 122 people on board. More than half of the passengers were relatives of soldiers, including 15 children. Suddenly contact broke off over the sea. On the morning of the following day, the wreckage of the missing machine and bodies were found by a navy search team off the coast of Launglon in southern Myanmar in the Andaman Sea , 218 kilometers from the port city of Dawei .
(T) On 10 July 2017 fell a Lockheed KC-130T Hercules of the United States Marine Corps (Bu 165000) in the delta region of the Mississippi River ( USA ) from. The trigger was the breakage of the propeller blade on engine 2 (inside left), which slit open the aircraft fuselage from the right and shot through it, whereupon propeller 3 (inside right) also came loose and damaged the fuselage and the horizontal stabilizer . Then the entire front part of the fuselage broke off and fell to the ground, followed by the rest of the machine. All 16 occupants, 8 crew members and 8 passengers, were killed.
(T) February 16 - Mexico's Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete Prida wanted to get a picture of the situation after a moderate earthquake and flew into Jamiltepec in Oaxaca in a helicopter . Shortly before landing on vacant property, the Sikorsky UH-60 military helicopter crashed , killing 13 people who had apparently been waiting for the minister to arrive on the ground. Blowing up dust had disoriented the pilot on landing.
(T) March 6 - An Antonov An-26 transport aircraft of the Russian Air Force (registration number RF-92955 ) crashed on approach to the Syrian military airfield at Hmeimim around 3 p.m. Moscow time about 500 m from the runway. All Russian military personnel on board, 33 passengers and six crew members, were killed (see also crash of an Antonov An-26 in Latakia ) .
March 20 - A Hawk T1 of the Red Arrows aerobatic team of the British Air Forces crashed shortly after take-off at 1:30 p.m. GMT during a training flight at the military section of Anglesey RAF Valley airport in Wales . A mechanic on board the aircraft suffered fatal injuries, the pilot survived injured.
(T) (A) April 11 - An Ilyushin Il-76 of the Algerian Air Force (7T-WIV) crashed into a field in the province of Blida in the north of Algeria shortly after taking off from Boufarik Air Force Base near the capital Algiers , broke and burned out. All 257 occupants, 247 soldiers and relatives and 10 crew members died (see plane crash near Boufarik ).
(T) On December 6, 2018, a McDonnell Douglas F / A-18C / D and a Lockheed KC-130J Hercules of the United States Marine Corps (Bu 167981) collided during a tank maneuver east of Japan. The crew of the F / A-18 was able to catapult themselves from the aircraft and the WSO was rescued, while the pilot could only be recovered dead. The five-man crew of the tanker was initially reported missing and declared dead on December 11, 2018 after the search was abandoned.
(T) January 14 - A Boeing 707-300 cargo aircraft, in service with the Iranian Air Force , was destroyed and caught fire while landing near Karaj . 15 of the 16 people on board were killed. The plane came from Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan and was supposed to land at Payam Airport. Instead, in bad weather conditions, it landed at Fat'h Airport, 10 kilometers away. The runways of the two airports are almost in the same direction, but the Fat'h runway is more than 2300 m shorter and therefore too short for the type of aircraft.
January 18 - Two Russian Air Force Su-34 fighter-bombers collided during a training flight over the Sea of Japan . The crews of the two machines (each pilot and navigator) were initially able to save themselves with the ejection seats, but not all survived the emergency exit or the parachute landing in the sea.
February 26 - A MiG-21 of the Cuban armed forces crashed into a field in the municipality of Güira de Melena , around 50 km southwest of Havana , during an aerial combat exercise . The pilot had tried to land the aircraft because of technical problems. He was able to save himself with the ejection seat. No people were harmed on the ground either.
March 4 - A MiG-29A of the Polish Air Force (registration number 40 ) crashed near Łochów . The pilot was able to save himself with the ejector seat.
(T) March 27 - A Mil Mi-8 of the Kazakh armed forces crashed "in the dark and difficult conditions", killing the 13 members of the armed forces on board.
June 24th - Two Eurofighter Typhoon of the Luftwaffe collided in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania north of the Fleesensee near Malchow and crashed. Both pilots were able to use the ejection seat, but one of the two pilots was killed. The other pilot was found alive from the top of a tree.
↑ Military: Let the pig out. After the crash of two jet fighters near Karlsruhe, outrage over risky aerial combat exercises grows. In: Der Spiegel . No.17 , 1990 ( online - 23 April 1990 ).
