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1966 : 19

A total of 19 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
01 Jan 66 HT-2 Flt Lt Jagmohan Singh Sachdeva
Flt Cdt Mukherjee +		 PTE DNE. After a Nav sortie, while doing a loop , the
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
28 Mar 66 Sea Hawk Lt Y M Bhide
 NAVY - INA Ejected into sea - MB List
14 May 66 HT-2 Flt Lt Raj Kumar Aga +
 PTE In Memoriam
03 Jun 66 Mil Mi-4 Fg Offr Chetan Swaroop Kataria
Plt Offr Tarsem Lal Bhardwaj		 Click to View Record Click to View Record Crashed at Mokukchung . Just after T/O engine fail
17 Jun 66 HT-2 Flt Lt Panj Rattan Singh +
Flt Cdt Dangwal Mahipal Raje		 PTE In Memoriam
30 Jun 66 Vampire Flt Cdt K Tarfa +
 1 JTW Flight Cadet K. Tarfa of Nigerian Air Force was on
07 Jul 66 Vampire T55 Fg Offr Vasudev Rao Niranjangopal +
Plt Offr Pramesh Chandra Agarwal +		 221 Sqn In Memoriam
18 Aug 66 Gnat Flt Lt Uday Raghunath Potnis +
 9 Sqn As the ac left the runway, the stbd drop tank fell
03 Sep 66 Otter DHC-3 IM-1730 Flt Lt Samuel Kunnapuzha George +
Fg Offr Suresh Kumar Puri +		 41 Sqn Himalayan foothills 4k F/L I F Hussain, R K Sabhar
27 Sep 66 Sea Hawk Lt A Sinha
 NAVY - INA Martin Baker List
08 Oct 66 Vampire T55 Fg Offr Rajan Onkar Ban +
Fg Offr Surrinder Singh Sehgal +		 Click to View Record 108 Sqn In Memoriam
13 Oct 66 Hunter F56 Flt Lt Nirmal Kumar Bhasin
 Click to View Record Martin Baker List
13 Oct 66 Vampire T55 Flt Lt Y S Rao
 Martin Baker List
06 Nov 66 Caribou DHC-4 BM-779 Wg Cdr Vishnu Pratap Singh Chauhan
Fg Offr Devi Singh Chauhan		 Click to View Record 33 Sqn Crew survived. Crew Wg Cdr V P S Chauhan, Fg Offr
09 Nov 66 MiG-21 U Wg Cdr Norman Foster Watts
Sqn Ldr Tekkidath Vijayan Nair Vijayan		 Click to View Record 4 Sqn Cr L in Chandigarh. Sqn Ldr Vijayan injured DNE
15 Dec 66 Ouragan Fg Offr Girja Shankar Narain +
 29 Sqn In Memoriam
28 Dec 66 Vampire FB52 Flt Cdt Arbinder Singh
 Click to View Record 1 JTW crashed over the paddy fields at Jagdevpur (Hyder

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