Accident Reports
Abbreviations: D: Date N/U: Nationality/Units T: Type S: SerialsD: Feb 2, 2016
N/U: US Air Force/432nd
Wing/414th ERS
T: MQ-1B Predator
S: 04-3129
Loss of this UAV remained
unreported until publication
of an Abbreviated Accident
Investigation Board report on
January 30 this year. It crashed
at around 2232hrs Zulu after
conducting a combat support
mission from an unspecified
deployed location in the US
CENTCOM area of responsibility.
The Predator had experienced
an engine malfunction, followed
by data link problems. While
troubleshooting the issue, it
departed controlled flight, entered
an irrecoverable spin and was
destroyed when it crashed in a
cultivated field approximately
10nm south of the base at which it
was intended to make a landing.
D: Sep 19, 2018
N/U: US Drug Enforcement
Agency Aviation Division
T: Cessna 206H Stationair
S: N247F
After losing power during a
training mission, this aircraft
struck power lines and hit two
vehicles while making a forced
landing on Voss Road, west of
Highway 6, during an approach to
the north of Sugar Land Regional
Airport, Houston, Texas. The
tail section was severed, the
undercarriage collapsed and the
outer port wing was damaged.
All three Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) agents on board
escaped, although one was
taken to hospital with minor
injuries. There were no injuries
to people in the vehicles hit or
anyone else on the ground.
The Cessna is one of 31 currently
officially registered to ‘Silver Creek
Aviation Services’, which is a front
company for DEA aircraft. A total
of 26 Cessna 206s, a Cessna
208B, a B300C King Air, a Bell
206L-3 LongRanger and three Bell
407s, all operated by the DEA,
are registered to the company.
D: Oct 1
N/U: Indian Navy/Indian Naval
Air Squadron 561
T: HAL316B Chetak
S: IN442
Undertaking a dry (ie over land)
winching training sortie at Indian
Naval Station Rajali, Arakkonam,
the helicopter crash-landed
at around 0904hrs, causing
extensive damage to the main
and tail rotors. The crew were
unhurt but damage to the aircraft
was reported as extensive.D: Oct 2
N: Royal Air Force
T: Tutor T1
S: G-BYUU
During a sortie from its base at
RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire,
the aircraft made a forced landing
in a nearby open field. The solo
pilot was unhurt, and the Tutor
came to rest on its undercarriage
and appeared to be undamaged.
Flying with the type was
temporarily halted after the
incident but resumed on October- Three units at Wittering
operate the Tutor T1: No 16
Squadron; Cambridge University
Air Squadron/5 Air Experience
Flight; and the University of
London Air Squadron.
D: Oct 3
N: Sudanese Air Force
T: An-26 and An-32
S: 7706? (An-26)
Both aircraft were written off
when they collided while landing
on runway 18 at KhartoumInternational Airport after
returning from training flights.
CCTV footage shows the An-26
slowing down on the runway as
the An-32 lands behind it. The
latter bounced several times,
each time coming back down
nosewheel first, possibly in
an attempt by the crew to get
airborne again at too slow a speed
when they realised the problem.
As the An-32 continued to gain
on the other aircraft, its crew
appeared to attempt to pull to the
right to avoid a collision, but the
port wing and propeller impacted
the rear of the An-26, cutting its
tail and tearing off the An-32’s
nose section. There was no fire
and all crew members reportedly
escaped the crash, which left the
runway closed for several hours.D: Oct 4
N/U: Bolivian Air Force/Grupo
Aéreo de Entrenamiento
21/Escuadrón Aéreo 211
T: Diamond DA40CS
S: FAB-527
During a flight from Base Aérea
El Trompillo, Santa Cruz, to its
home base at Chimoré Airport,
Cochabamba, engine failure
forced this aircraft’s crew to
perform an emergency landing
at approximately 1050hrsnear an industrial plant in the
town of Bulo, Cochabamba.
The pilot, Capt José Huayllas
Torres, co-pilot Lt Diego Jaramillo
León and passenger Jhon Rocha
García, who was also a member
of the FAB, escaped the crash,
although one suffered minor
burns and was taken to hospital
for treatment. The aircraft was
destroyed in a post-crash fire.D: Oct 4
N: US Navy
T: F/A-18F Super Hornet
A fire erupted in the starboard
engine of this jet during a training
flight from Naval Air Station
Lemoore, California. The aircraft
returned for a safe emergency
landing and there were no injuries,
but the incident was categorised
as a Class A mishap, indicating
more than $2m worth of damage.D: Oct 5
N: Bolivian Air Force
T: Cessna 210L Centurion
S: FAB-401
Unable to fully lower its
undercarriage, this aircraft made
an emergency landing at 1410hrs
at Base Aérea El Trompillo, Santa
Cruz, with the nosewheel retracted
and main wheels jammed only
partially out of the undercarriage
The wreckage of the Sudanese Air
Force An-26 and An-32 following
their collision at Khartoum
International Airport on October 3.RAF Tutor T1 G-BYUU sits in an open field near RAF Wittering after its forced landing close to the airfield. RAF
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