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Accident Reports

D: Jul 26
N/U: German Army/KHR 36
T: Tiger UHT
While supporting MINUSMA
operations in Mali, this
helicopter crashed at 1420hrs
south of Tabankort, 43 miles
(70km) north of Gao, Mali.
Both crew members were
killed and the helicopter was
burnt out in a post-crash fire.

D: Jul 29
N: Libyan National Army
Air Force
T: MiG-23UB
S: 8008
Nigerian Air Force AW109 LUH NAF 573 partially submerged in a lagoon after it force landed. via Twitter While carrying out an air strike
against militants in Derna, Libya,
D: Jul 4 T: AW109 LUH Zahurul Haque, Chittagong, this aircraft was shot down over
N: Colombian Air Force S: NAF 573 this aircraft crashed at around the Dhar Al-Hamer district of
T: TH-67 Creek This helicopter was extensively 1500hrs local time near the the town by Derna Mujahideen
S: FAC 4578 damaged when it ditched base. Both pilots ejected Shura Council (DMSC) militants
This helicopter was substantially in a lagoon in Maidiguri safely. Initial reports suggest using a MANPADS. The
damaged during a forced landing following an in-flight technical a fly-by-wire control failure pilot of the Flogger-C, Col
at the Flandes outlying landing fault, but the crew members caused the accident. Adel Abdullah Al-Jihani, and
field following a technical escaped uninjured. co-pilot were both killed.
failure while on a training flight D: Jul 16
from Melgar. Neither of the D: Jul 10 N/U: US Navy/VFA-154 D: Aug 1
two occupants were injured. N/U: US Marine Corps/VMGR- T: F/A-18F Super Hornet N: US Army
452 S: 166883 ‘NH-112’ T: HH-60 Black Hawk
D: Jul 4 T: KC-130T Hercules The engine borescope plug on During an Operation Resolute
N: Indian Air Force S: 165000 ‘NY-000’ this aircraft extended in flight, Support mission in Afghanistan
T: HAL Dhruv All 16 personnel on board this causing hot air to burn the this Black Hawk suffered a
While on a sortie from Tezpur aircraft were killed when it engine bay and aircraft skin. mechanical issue, resulting
Air Force Station, Assam, the crashed just off US Highway The aircraft landed safely but in a hard landing near Achin,
helicopter was reported missing 82 near Itta Bena in Leflore damage was such that it has Nangarhar. Two crew members
at around 1550hrs near Sagalee County, about 85 miles (136km) been categorised as a Class A suffered minor injuries during
in the Papum Pare district north of Jackson, Mississippi, incident, indicating more than $2 the landing. The helicopter
of Arunachal Pradesh, with around 1600hrs. According million-worth of repairs are likely was deemed to be repairable
four on board. Wreckage was to an official at Mississippi’s to be required. The location and was therefore recovered.
spotted the following evening Greenwood Airport, the aircraft was not reported, but VFA-154
in the Sopo Yuha area, about 19 was being tracked by air traffic was deployed with Carrier Air Additional material from:
miles (30km) north of Itanagar control when it experienced an Wing 11 aboard the USS Nimitz Scramble/Dutch Aviation
in Arun. Three crewmembers unknown problem at 20,000ft (CVN 68) in the Bay of Bengal. Society and Asagiri Yohko.
were killed, while a single and an eyewitness saw it
passenger was listed as missing. spiralling into the ground. The
majority of the airframe came
D: Jul 6 to rest on fire in a soybean field,
N: Indian Air Force but other debris was scattered
T: MiG-23UB over a 5-mile (8km) radius.
S: MS3472 An intense fire destroyed the
During a training mission from aircraft, which had departed
Jodhpur Air Force Station, this from Marine Corps Air Station
aircraft crashed at around Cherry Point, North Carolina, to
1145hrs local time, about 37 take personnel and equipment
miles (60km) from the base. to NAF El Centro, California.
Both pilots ejected safely
from the Flogger before it D: Jul 11
came down near the village N/U: Bangladesh Air Force/
of Belasar in the Jodhpur 21 Squadron
district of Rajasthan state. T: Yak-130
S: 15102 ‘102’
D: Jul 6 During a training flight from Above: Part of the burnt-out remains of Bangladesh Air Force/21 Squadron
Yak-130 15102 ‘102’ following its crash on July 11. Both crew ejected safely. via
N: Nigerian Air Force Bangladesh Air Force Base Twitter
Abbreviations: D: Date N/U: Nationality/Units T: Type S: Serials

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