combat aircraft

• A Su-27UBM1 (Bort 70) operated
  by the Ukrainian Air Force crashed
  on October 16 during a training
  sortie as part of Exercise ‘Clear Sky
  2018’. The  ghter came down near
  the village of Ulaniv, around 185
  miles south-west of Kiev. The two-
  man crew — a Ukrainian Air Force
  pilot and a US Air National Guard
  pilot — were both killed.


• An F-22A operated by the US
  Air Force’s 3rd Wing was damaged
  in an emergency landing at Joint
  Base Elmendorf-Richardson on
  October 11. The landing followed an
  apparent landing gear malfunction.
  The pilot egressed the Raptor on the
  ground and was not injured.


• Two pilots aboard an L-39ZAM
  operated by the Slovak Air Force’s
  2nd Squadron ejected safely before
  the Albatros crashed on October 10.
  The trainer went down around 1.2
  miles (2km) from Sliač air base.


• T-6C serial NZ1402 was damaged
  in a gear-up landing that occurred
  at Ōhakea air base, Manawatū, New
  Zealand, on October 9. The Texan II,
  which is assigned to the Royal New
  Zealand Air Force’s No 14 Squadron,
  reportedly su ered a mechanical
  failure during a night training
  mission. Neither pilot was injured.


• Both pilots aboard a MiG-29UB
  operated by the Russian Aerospace
  Force’s Gromov Flight Research
  Institute ejected safely before the
   ghter crashed in a forest near
  Moscow on October 5. The crew
  was conducting a training  ight
  at the time.


• DA40CS serial FAB-527 (c/n
  40.802) operated by the Bolivian Air
  Force’s Squadron 211 crashed in the
  town of Bulo Bulo in Cochabamba
  following an apparent engine
  failure on October 4. Three crew
  and passengers were injured in
  the mishap, which occurred in
  central Bolivia.


• Two Antonov transports operated
  by the Sudanese Air Force were
  destroyed in a ground collision
  that occurred on the runway at
  Khartoum Airport on October 3. The
  mishap involved examples of the
  An-26 and An-32 and apparently
  occurred during landing when

BELGIAN F-16 DESTROYED BY ‘FRIENDLY FIRE’

F16AM SERIAL FA128 assigned

to the 2nd Tactical Wing of the

Belgian Air Component was

destroyed by a  re and apparent

explosion, and another was

damaged, in a ground incident

at Florennes air base, Belgium

on October 11. The incident

occurred while an F-16 was

undergoing maintenance on

its 20mm Vulcan cannon in

an adjacent shelter, when the

weapon inadvertently went

live. The weapon had rounds

chambered and some of these

struck two other F-16s located

across the ramp.

of Kirkuk during a training  ight.

Six crew and passengers su ered

minor injuries.

• An unidenti ed helicopter
  operated by the Afghan National
  Army crashed in the in Koh-e-Sa
  district of central Parwan province
  on September 29. Eight crew and
  passengers aboard the aircraft
  were killed in the mishap, which
  occurred around 31 miles (50km)
  north of Kabul.


• Just one day after US Marine
  Corps F-35Bs  ew their debut
  combat missions, the service
  su ered the  rst crash of one its
  Lightning IIs on September 28. The
  F-35B, which had been assigned
  to Marine Fighter Attack Training
  Squadron (VMFAT) 501 ‘Warlords’,
  went down near Beaufort, South
  Carolina on September 28 around
   ve miles (8km) west of MCAS

Beaufort. The pilot ejected safely

before the aircraft crashed on Little

Barnwell Island. All three variants of

the F-35 were temporarily grounded

for inspections on October 11 after

it was determined that the crash

may have been caused by a faulty

fuel tube.

• One pilot was killed when two
  F-7Ni  ghters operated by the
  Nigerian Air Force collided in mid-air
  on September 28. The second pilot
  ejected safely following the collision,
  which occurred in Katampe,
  near Abuja.


• Both crew ejected safely from a
  Russian Aerospace Force MiG-31BM
  before the  ghter crashed on
  September 19. The  ghter went
  down near Kulebaki in the Nizhny
  Novgorod region around 10.6 miles
  (17km) from Savasleyka air base,
  shortly after take-o.

LOSSES

Compiled by Tom Kaminski

the An-32 ran into the An-26 from

behind. No fatalities were reported

but eight personnel were injured.

• Indian Navy Chetak (Alouette
  III) serial IN442 crashed while
  conducting hoist training at INS
  Rajali, Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu
  on October 1. Three crew were
  injured in the mishap, which heavily
  damaged the helicopter.


• A AC-208 Combat Caravan
  operated by the Iraqi Air Force was
  heavily damaged in an emergency
  landing in the desert on September

29. The mishap occurred in the
    Kurdistan region near Kalar city
    around 62 miles (100km) south-east

Below: F-16AM serial

FA-128 was assigned

to the 2nd Tactical

Wing. Dino van Doorn

Below: The burnt-out

wreckage of FA-128 after

the ‘friendly fi re’ incident

at Florennes.

[NEWS] WORLD

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