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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1966 : 2 1967 : 2 1970 : 1 1971 : 2 1973 : 1 1976 : 1 1977 : 1 1989 : 1 1990 : 1 2001 : 1 2003 : 1 2007 : 1 2011 : 1

A total of 16 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
15 Feb 66 Ouragan Fg Offr Manoj Kumar Banerjee +
 47 Sqn In Memoriam
22 Feb 66 Ouragan Fg Offr Jaswant Singh Sidhu +
 47 Sqn Hit ATC Tower Bujaur guwahati 3 Killed incl Pilot
13 Apr 67 Ouragan Fg Offr Michael John Pereira +
 47 Sqn In Memoriam
09 Dec 67 Ouragan Fg Offr Gauri Shankar Singh +
 47 Sqn Crash in general handling sortie
21 Nov 70 MiG-21 FL Sqn Ldr P Purushothama Dass +
 Click to View Record 47 Sqn In Memoriam
12 Dec 71 MiG-21 FL C-603 Fg Offr Prakash Kumar Sahu +
 Click to View Record 47 Sqn Undershot runway at Palam.
13 Dec 71 MiG-21 FL C-705 Wg Cdr Harsern Singh Gill +
 Click to View Record 47 Sqn SD AAA near Badin
16 Mar 73 MiG-21 FL Fg Offr Balinder Singh Sandhu +
 47 Sqn Killed in accident Srinagar
08 Jun 76 MiG-21 FL Flt Lt Turab Ali +
 47 Sqn In Memoriam
15 Oct 77 MiG-21 FL Flt Lt Z A V Fernandes +
 47 Sqn In Memoriam
01 Jun 89 MiG-29 KB -714 Sqn Ldr Rakesh Madan
 47 Sqn .DNE Ran off Runway - Aircraft Cat E - not repaire
13 Oct 90 MiG-29 Sqn Ldr Rakesh Madan +
 47 Sqn Went into ground during aerobatics
04 Jul 01 MiG-29 Sqn Ldr Sandeep Mehra +
 47 Sqn Cr Todarpur-Ajnoha Vill at Hoshiarpur Pun. Adampur
04 Dec 03 MiG-29 KB-736 Sqn Ldr Pudiapura Jawahar Mohamed
 Click to View Record 47 Sqn BO 25km from Adampur
08 May 07 MiG-29 KB-3121 Lt Cdr Vikramdeep Singh Chauhan
 47 Sqn Cr after TO from Adampur, Pilot Ejected
18 Oct 11 MiG-29 KB-703 Sqn Ldr Dharmendra Singh Tomar +
 47 Sqn Crashed during a night-flying exercise in the Laha

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