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| 1942 : 116 |
A total of 116 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jan 42 | Hurricane | HV435 | | 2 Sqn | Hit tree low flying 2m NW of Barkakekarra | |
| 16 Jan 42 | Lysander II | P1675 | Plt Offr H S Ratnagar |  | 1 Sqn | Peshawar Swung on landing ran off strip Undercarra |
| 16 Jan 42 | Lysander II | R2033 | Plt Offr C Satyanarayana |  | 1 Sqn | Peshawar Swung on landing ran off strip Undercarra |
| 18 Jan 42 | Hart (India) | K3922 | Plt Offr Z B Sanjana |  | 1SFTS | Aircraft swerved on landing, hit heap of stones an |
| 20 Jan 42 | Blenheim I | L4912 | | 3 CDF | Dam in Air Raid on Moulmein AC dest by crew | |
| 26 Jan 42 | Leopard Moth | DD818 | Plt Offr Zahiruddin Ahmed |  | 1SFTS | Ambala - Landing normally swung on U/c collapse Pi |
| 27 Jan 42 | Audax (India) | K3097 | Fg Offr B S Dugal | 1SFTS | Lost his way, hit stump of tree while landing. Ove | |
| 31 Jan 42 | Audax (India) | K4849 | Plt Offr O P Mehra Sgt Murli Dhar |  | 3 Sqn | Cr on L at Miranshah, Gunner Sgt Muralidhar |
| 08 Feb 42 | Lysander II | L4740 | Plt Offr F P Amber AC Ramzan Ali | 2 Sqn | Landed and overturned after hitting drain at Bhopa | |
| 09 Feb 42 | Tigermoth II | R5121 | Plt Offr M J Mangalraj Plt Offr A S P Jaipal |  | 1SFTS | spun in from 600ft. Pilots injured but safe. 1 gir |
| 09 Feb 42 | Audax (India) | K5237 | Plt Offr A M Kapur |  | 1SFTS | Overturned landing at night |
| 11 Feb 42 | Tigermoth | VT-AQT | Offr Cdt Redi | 1EFTS | damaged ac struck tree middle of secunderabad. Off | |
| 12 Feb 42 | Lysander II | Flt Lt Niranjan Prasad Sgt E S Moyer RCAF |  | 1 Sqn | Baled out after being hitby our own AA fire | |
| 15 Feb 42 | Lysander II | P9120 | Plt Offr Yeshwant Vinayak Malse |  | 1 Sqn | DNE Ac destroyed in Jap Raid on Magwe |
| 20 Feb 42 | Wapiti IIA | K1308 | Plt Offr Arora Plt Offr Sandhu |   | 5 CDF | Ditched in Sea of Cochin, Plt Offr Sandhu OK. (Ser |
| 21 Feb 42 | Blenheim I | L4915 | | 3 CDF | Dest by Jap air raid on Bassien.Depth charges caug | |
| 23 Feb 42 | Lysander II | Fg Offr Jatain Kumar Deuskar + Sgt Kameshwara Dhora + |  | 1 Sqn | Ac crashed after tipping over on landing - Gunner | |
| 27 Feb 42 | Hart (India) | K2112 | Plt Offr S L Shah |  | 1SFTS | Overturned while forced landing due to engine fail |
| 01 Mar 42 | Lysander II | DG447 | Sqn Ldr Karun Krishna Majumdar Sgt Rustomji |  | 1 Sqn | Forcelanded in forest - Lashio to Mensom. Due to e |
| 03 Mar 42 | Catalina B | Plt Offr Man Mohan Singh + |  | 205 Sqdn R | Ac attacked on ground by Jap ac. | |
| 03 Mar 42 | Lysander II | L4748 | Plt Offr K H Motishaw Sgt A Algar RAF + | 2 Sqn | landed at Drighroad, 20lb bomb blew up killing gnr | |
| 04 Mar 42 | Blenheim I | L8448 | Flt Lt Hem Chaudhury |  | 3 CDF | Ditched off Cox Bazar |
| 04 Mar 42 | Audax (India) | K3098 | 1SFTS | Damaged main planes whle low flying, cross country | ||
| 10 Mar 42 | Tigermoth II | VT-ANC | Offr Cdt Goharbans Singh | 1EFTS | Stalled and crashed during turning at Begumpet | |
| 16 Mar 42 | Wapiti IIA | K1286 | Plt Offr J C Verma |  | 1 AACU IAF | 1 AACF hit by Lysander N1209 of 2 Sq at DR 16-3-42 |
| 16 Mar 42 | Lysander II | N1209 | Plt Offr C M Cariappa Major Dimsdale GLO |  | 2 Sqn | Collided with K1286 Wapiti during take off. Aircra |
| 16 Mar 42 | Wapiti IIA | K1270 | Plt Offr M M Sakhare |  | 4 CDF | uc collapsed on hvy ldg 16-3-42SOC 6 Apr 42 |
| 16 Mar 42 | Tigermoth DH82 | VT-ANF | Flt Cdt Ronald Eian MacKenzie + Fg Offr Dennis John Alsen FLETCHER + | 1EFTS | Broken Prop caused engine failure 1 m N of Libkagu | |
| 17 Mar 42 | Hart (India) | K3921 | Plt Offr Patwardhan | 1SFTS | overshot landing and hit concrete pillar Ambala | |
| 19 Mar 42 | Tigermoth DH82 | VT-AMQ | Plt Offr Raza Ullah Khan + Offr Cdt S A Aziz |   | 1EFTS | collided with VT-ANA over Yarragadda at Begumpet C |
| 20 Mar 42 | Lysander II | N1256 | Plt Offr Shankar Chakravarthy + |  | 4 Sqn | Taken off for Practice Flying at 1020 Hours. Befor |
| 23 Mar 42 | Audax (India) | K4843 | Plt Offr V K Reddy AC1 P D Seraph |  | 3 Sqn | Cr on landing at Kohat, overturned, Gunner Seraph |
| 25 Mar 42 | Wapiti IIA | K2277 | Flt Lt David Laurance SMALL Plt Offr Mukerjee | 4 CDF | Bulsherry Island - Diamond Harbour Obs Plt Offr Mu | |
| 28 Mar 42 | Lysander II | P9194 | Flt Lt S S Majithia Plt Offr D R Reddy |   | 2 Sqn | Crashed on landing. Crew injured. Pilot undershot |
| 28 Mar 42 | Wapiti V | J9742 | Plt Offr M M Sakhare | | 4 CDF | Miranshah 1937, Miranshah 39 Kohat 41, Ditched 28 |
| 06 Apr 42 | Atalanta AW15 | DG454 | | 3 CDF | Crashed in Sunderbans VT-AEG Dest by fire. Deemed | |
| 08 Apr 42 | Lysander II | R2007 | | 1 Sqn | Overshot on landing and ran off landing ground int | |
| 09 Apr 42 | Tigermoth DH82 | VT-AND | Offr Cdt Gopalkrishna |  | 1EFTS | tried to avoid boundary fence at begumpet, and fai |
| 21 Apr 42 | Lysander II | P9121 | Plt Offr Dharamraj Goordeen + |  | 4 Sqn | Fatal Flying Crash. |
| 21 Apr 42 | Tigermoth DH82 | VT-AMT | 1EFTS | undershot runway at Begumpet and cr into fence. La | ||
| 30 Apr 42 | Audax (India) | K5142 | Plt Offr R S Sharma |  | 1SFTS | Undershot landing, hit tree on appraoch and uc col |
| 02 May 42 | Hart (India) | K2090 | Plt Offr C V Chary | 1SFTS | MAC Audax 3098 during takeoff . Both occupants adm | |
| 02 May 42 | Hart (India) | K2094 | Plt Offr Mendoza |  | 1SFTS | Undercarraige collapsed as result of heavy landing |
| 02 May 42 | Hart (India) | K2089 | Sgt Alan Martin Howard CARBERY + | 1 1ATU | ATU stalled and DiG 3m SW Peshawar 2-5-42 1 killed | |
| 02 May 42 | Hart (India) | K2089 | Sgt Alan Martin Howard CARBERY + | 1ATU | Peshawar. Pilot att from 155 sqn completed a bombi | |
| 07 May 42 | Tigermoth II | VT-AMN | Offr Cdt Shyam Sunder Nath Dar + Plt Offr Dara Phirozshah Majoo + |  | 1EFTS | Struck palm tree 1 mile N of Begumpet during LL Fl |
| 12 May 42 | Lysander II | Plt Offr F D A Moses + Plt Offr R A P Larive | 4 Sqn | Crashed in square 7845. Cause not known. Moses kil | ||
| 13 May 42 | Audax (India) | K4848 | | 3 Sqn | 3s uc collapse in FL Miranshan 13-5-42 | |
| 14 May 42 | Audax (India) | K8319 | Plt Offr Murkot Ramunny |  | 1SFTS | DNE - Ambala - ground collision with another Audax |
| 20 May 42 | Wapiti IIA | K1271 | Plt Offr M L Mishra |  | 1 1ATU | 1SFTS ATU Cr on ldg Peshawara 20-5-42 |
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