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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1963 : 2 1965 : 4 1966 : 1 1968 : 4 1969 : 2 1970 : 5 1971 : 11 1972 : 8 1973 : 5 1974 : 4 1975 : 5 1976 : 5 1977 : 2 1978 : 2 1979 : 6
1980 : 3 1981 : 3 1982 : 8 1983 : 2 1984 : 1 1985 : 6 1986 : 8 1987 : 6 1988 : 14 1989 : 9 1990 : 6 1991 : 8 1992 : 7 1993 : 7 1994 : 12
1995 : 3 1996 : 9 1997 : 6 1998 : 9 1999 : 16 2000 : 9 2001 : 12 2002 : 12 2003 : 4 2004 : 2 2005 : 4 2006 : 3 2007 : 2 2008 : 4 2009 : 3
2010 : 2 2011 : 7 2012 : 1 2013 : 2 2014 : 3 2015 : 2 2016 : 3 2018 : 2 2019 : 3 2021 : 5 2022 : 1 2023 : 1

A total of 296 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
13 Aug 87 MiG-21 Bis C-2132 Wg Cdr Jagdish Singh Grewal
 Click to View Record 45 Sqn 10 km W of Naliya,Fire, control loss ejected.
03 Sep 87 MiG-21 Bis Flt Lt Ranbir Singh
 3 Sqn Cr during LL fight - Pilot thrown out safe
25 Dec 87 MiG-21 Bis Sqn Ldr Ashok Sadhashiv Limaye
 Click to View Record Aircraft hit snowbank, turned on back - w/o
11 Jan 88 MiG-21 FL C-770 Flt Lt Anil Raj +
 MOFTU 10 km from Tezpur
10 Feb 88 MiG-21
Cr 20 km from Lucknow
15 Feb 88 MiG-21 Flt Lt Bijendra Singh Panwar +
 37 Sqn In Memoriam
16 Mar 88 MiG-21 M Flt Lt Bhaskar Jyoti Adiyta +
 29 Sqn Rajkot cr in field Pt Killed
18 Mar 88 MiG-21 Plt Offr Surinder Singh Pahil +
 30 Sqn Cr gerua patther Tezpur Pt K
13 May 88 MiG-21 Fg Offr Ashutosh Sharma +
 4 Sqn In Memoriam
21 May 88 MiG-21 Flt Lt Nitish Balachandra Kadam +
 51 Sqn 28 km fm Srinagar
11 Jul 88 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Shakeel Soni +
 3 Sqn Cr into hill during ACM exercise
24 Sep 88 MiG-21 Wg Cdr Rakesh Sharma
 Click to View Record HAL Cr in field Pimplegaon 100 km fm Nasik
29 Sep 88 MiG-21M C-1680 Sqn Ldr Birender Singh Dhanoa
 Click to View Record 101 Sqn flame out due to failure of the Main Fuel Pump ou
08 Nov 88 MiG-21 Bis C-2798 Sqn Ldr Ramesh Malhotra
 Click to View Record 17 Sqn Cr Delhi Nazafgarh during flypast 4 k on ground
17 Nov 88 MiG-21
Jamnagar AFB
14 Dec 88 MiG-21 Fg Offr Jaleel Ahmed +
 32 Sqn Killed in Crash - No Further Details
27 Dec 88 MiG-21 Flt Lt Sukhdev Singh Bhehowalia +
 37 Sqn In Memoriam
23 Jan 89 MiG-21
10 km fm Chandigarh at Zeerakhpur
13 Apr 89 MiG-21 Bis Flt Lt Ashish Agarwal +
 26 Sqn Crashed while leading a 2 ac LL gun and missile at
23 Apr 89 MiG-21 Sqn Ldr Kulwant Singh Dhindsa +
 37 Sqn In Memoriam
03 May 89 MiG-21
[afm/au/6/89] from Ambala
10 May 89 MiG-21 Bis Wg Cdr Rabin Kumar Ghosh
 3 Sqn BO Engine flame out at Jaisalmer
20 Jul 89 MiG-21 Plt Offr Sanjay Tandon +
 3 Sqn Lost way on solo flight, crashed 40NM from ptkt
24 Oct 89 MiG-21 Fg Offr Ajay Srivastava +
 45 Sqn In Memoriam
10 Nov 89 MiG-21 Sqn Ldr Bondugula Vijay Kumar Reddy
 Click to View Record 108 Sqn 4 km from adampur Kathania Vill
16 Nov 89 MiG-21 Fg Offr Ranjan Krishnan +
 32 Sqn In Memoriam
10 Jan 90 MiG-21 Plt Offr Sharad Srivastava
 Ejected.
09 Apr 90 MiG-21 Fg Offr Sanjay Kumar Singh +
 29 Sqn Kagachia Vill Midnapore fm Kalaikonda 3 k on gd .
11 Jun 90 MiG-21 Gp Capt Mohinder Singh Bhatia +
 35 Wing AOC died in accident.
25 Jun 90 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Vijay Agarwal +
 15 Sqn Failed to Return to Bhuj - ac missing never traced
14 Nov 90 MiG-21 Bis Wg Cdr Rajib Kumar Chakravorty +
 Click to View Record 4 Sqn Cr during night flying from Jaisalmer. 12503 Rajib
28 Dec 90 MiG-21 Plt Offr Narayanan Vijit +
 MOFTU Tezpur Cr Rota Darrang dist
02 Feb 91 MiG-21 M
29 Sqn took of in a 4ac RP and guns sortie and ejected ju
03 Apr 91 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Vivek Sikka +
 4 Sqn Hit hill on approach at Jaisalmer
01 May 91 MiG-21 M Wg Cdr Damodaran
 29 Sqn Ejected while turning finals - after DASI inspecti
19 Jul 91 MiG-21 Plt Offr Rehan Ahmed +
 8 Sqn Cr after TO frm Baghdogra
20 Jul 91 MiG-21 Plt Offr Sujoy Chandra +
 MOFTU In Memoriam
07 Aug 91 MiG-21 Fg Offr Surinder Singh Rana +
 Click to View Record 24 Sqn From Ambala
10 Aug 91 MiG-21 Plt Offr S Shriram +
 MOFTU In Memoriam
09 Oct 91 MiG-21 Fg Offr Inder Mohan Singh +
 32 Sqn Cr on Landing at Jamnagar Pt killed
26 Apr 92 MiG-21
Simolodenga N Lakhimpur Pt BO [afm/july/62/92]
13 May 92 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Bharat Mehra
 Click to View Record Mathania Vill Jodhpur AFS
14 May 92 MiG-21 Plt Offr Avishek Punia +
 8 Sqn In Memoriam
03 Jun 92 MiG-21 FL Flt Lt Chow Ongpee Maunglang +
 Click to View Record MOFTU cr rahibal morigaon dist fm tezpur AFS
16 Jun 92 MiG-21 Bis
4 Sqn G-LOC during Spin over Uttarlai. Ejected
25 Sep 92 MiG-21 Bis Flt Lt Ranjit P Damle +
 3 Sqn Cr during Demo for Press at Leh BO but K
03 Dec 92 MiG-21
padumari Vill Tezpur Dist
17 Feb 93 MiG-21 Bis
Cr on approach Jodhpur Bird Hit
02 Mar 93 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Sanjay Singh Chauhan
 26 Sqn Cr Landed to side of Runway, rescued from burning
15 Apr 93 MiG-21 UM Air Cmde Sanjeeva Sahay +
Wg Cdr Prakash Govind Malvi +		 Click to View Record Click to View Record 32 Sqn Aircraft pitched down during go-around with u/c up

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