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Abbreviations: D: Date N/U: Nationality/Units T: Type S: Serialsbay. The unspecified number
of crew members on board
were unhurt but the aircraft
was reported to have sustained
considerable damage.
D: Oct 5
N: Indian Air Force
T: Pipistrel Virus SW 80 Garud
S: ML-130
During a sortie from Hindon Air
Force Station, Ghaziabad, to
practise for the 86th Air Force
Day celebrations on October
8, the two crew of this aircraft
encountered a problem and
activated the ballistic parachute
recovery system. The ultralight
came down safely without injuring
the crew but its forward fuselage
area was damaged when it
came to rest on its nose among
trees at Ranchad, in the Binauli
area, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.
D: Oct 5
N/U: Russian Aerospace
Forces/Gromov Flight Test
Institute
T: MiG-29UB
S: ‘84 Blue’, c/n 50903026414
After a bird had been ingested, a
fire broke out in one of this MiG-
29UB’s engines during a training
flight from Zhukovsky, resulting in
loss of control and forcing the two
crew to eject after pointing the jet
towards an uninhabited area. It
crashed in a forested area close to
the village of Dmitrovskoye, near
Ostrovets, not far from the city of
Yegoryevsk, in the Kolomensky
district, Kolomna, Moscow region.
The two test pilots were later
identified as Alexander Krutov
and Mikhail Kondratenko, one
of whom suffered unspecified
injuries, not believed to be serious.
D: Oct 9
N: Royal New Zealand Air Force
T: T-6C Texan II
S: NZ1402
Flying a night training sortie from
RNZAF Base Ohakea, this Texan II
trainer had a technical malfunction
and the two crew were unable
to lower the undercarriage.
They made an emergency belly
landing back at Ohakea and
were unhurt. The turboprop
aircraft came to rest with its
propeller blades bent back, but
otherwise did not appear to
have any other major damage. It
remained on the runway overnight
and was removed by a salvage
team the following afternoon.
D: Oct 9
N: US Navy
T: 2 x HH-60H Seahawk
These two helicopters taxied
into each other on the ramp at
Kadena Air Base, Japan. There
were no injuries, but the US Naval
Safety Center has categorised the
incident as a Class A mishap.D: Oct 10
N: Indian Air Force
T: Jaguar
This aircraft veered off the
runway and was substantially
damaged during a night landing
at Jamnagar Air Force Station.
The pilot ejected safely.D: Oct 10
N/U: Slovak Air Force/2nd
Tactical Squadron
T: L-39ZAM Albatros
S: 4711
Following engine failure during
a routine training sortie from its
base at Sliač, this aircraft crashed
in an open field north of Zvolen,
between Sliač and Kováčová. Both
crew members ejected safely
and were taken to hospital for
treatment and released the same
day. As a precaution, Slovakia
temporarily grounded its remaining
L-39s pending investigation
into the cause of the loss.D: Oct 10
N: US Air ForceT: Various F-22A, QF-16 and
MU-2 aircraft
The full force of Hurricane Michael
struck Tyndall AFB, Florida,
tearing the roofs off many hangars
and other buildings. Aircraft that
could be flown out had already
left before the storm, but those
under maintenance or otherwise
grounded remained in hangars.
It’s not clear how many were
damaged, or to what extent,
but it is known that 17 F-22As
remained on base along
with an unknown number of
QF-16s and several contractor-
owned Mitsubishi MU-2s.
During recovery operations, at
least five Raptors that had been
covered in insulation and other
debris from hangar roofs were
cleaned up and able to fly out
between October 22 and 24. Two
F-15s on static display around the
base (F-15A 74-0095 and F-15C
80-0016) and F-15A 77-0146 in
nearby Callaway were turned
upside down by the hurricane.D: Oct 11
N: Belgian Air Component
T: F-16AM
S: FA-128
During maintenance work on an
F-16 in a hangar at Florennes
air base, a ground technician
accidentally fired a number of
rounds from its 20mm M61A1
Vulcan cannon. They struckanother F-16 parked on the apron
outside which, fully fuelled and
ready for a mission, exploded in
flames and was destroyed. Two
ground personnel were injured,
suffering hearing problems.
Another F-16 parked nearby
sustained minor damage.D: Oct 11
N/U: US Air Force/3rd Wing
T: F-22A Raptor
This aircraft made an emergency
landing at Joint Base Elmendorf-
Richardson, Alaska, due to
an undercarriage problem. It
came to rest with the port wing
on the ground and is reported
to have been substantially
damaged. The pilot was unhurt.D: Oct 13
N: Russian Aerospace Forces
T: Orlan-10
S: 958 (c/n 20171111005)
While flying over the city of
Lysychansk, in Luhansk Oblast,
Ukraine, this reconnaissance
UAV was shot down by a
Ukrainian Army Aviation Mi-24
attack helicopter. The shoot-
down was achieved despite its
Russian operators constantly
changing the Orlan’s course in
an attempt to avoid it being hit.
It was found and recovered by
Ukrainian forces, and images
of it were later released by
members of the Ukrainian
Joint Forces Operation.D: Oct 15
N: Royal Jordanian Air Force
T: AH-1F Cobra
S: 1202
Following engine failure, this
helicopter force-landed in an open
field in the village of Rajm Alshuk,
west of Zarqa Governorate. The
two crew were uninjured and the
Cobra reportedly undamaged.
A maintenance team repaired it
on site before it flew out again.
The same helicopter was
involved in a similar forced
landing on December 26, 2016, atIndian Air Force Garud ML-130
on its nose after the crew had
to use its ballistic parachute
recovery system during a sortie
from Hindon Air Force Station.The wreckage of Slovak Air Force/2nd Tactical Squadron L-39ZAM Albatros
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