Nav view search
Navigation
Search
IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database
| 1987 : 29 |
A total of 29 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Jan 87 | Mil Mi-17 | Babu? | 128 HU | DNE Pilot mishandled trim controls on ground. Ac l | ||
| 09 Jan 87 | Ajeet | 2 Sqn | DNE Ac Rolling to right on finals -Ejt KKD | |||
| 20 Feb 87 | MiG-23 BN | Flt Lt Rachamadugu Raghu + |  | 221 Sqn | In Memoriam | |
| 17 Apr 87 | Antonov An-32 | K-2715 | Wg Cdr Kasaragod Pallath Viiayakumar |  | Possibly Repaired Belly landed wheels up due to high W/Orkload in co | |
| 24 Apr 87 | Mirage 2000 | Flt Lt Anil Ganpatrao Ghatge + | 7 Sqn | Collided with a hill during night LL Navigation so | ||
| 21 May 87 | MiG-23 BN | Sqn Ldr Vinaykumar Suryakant Bhisey + | 10 Sqn | LL Night Sortie. Lost contact with FC. A ball of f | ||
| 04 Jun 87 | Unidentified F | | Asohi Vill Kutch dist pt BO | |||
| 08 Jun 87 | MiG-21 | Sqn Ldr Deepak Datta + |  | Cr at Bhatinda W Sector | ||
| 17 Jun 87 | Cheetah SA-315 | Flt Lt Indrjitsinh Dansinh Gohil + Fg Offr Praveen Sharma + | 131 FAC Fl | Cr in R Chenab 160 km fm jammu | ||
| 27 Jul 87 | MiG-21 | Fg Offr Vivekanand S Jaware + | Cr Jopra Vill Sirsa Dist. Name and Dt from In Memo | |||
| 01 Aug 87 | MiG-21 Bis | Flt Lt Kondaoasula Raghavendra Prasad |  | 32 Sqn | DNE. Engine flameout on short finals. Ejected. On | |
| 13 Aug 87 | Canberra | Sqn Ldr Gurtej Singh Chauhan + Sqn Ldr Janardhanan Radhakrishnan + | 6 Sqn | Night time training sortie Pune | ||
| 13 Aug 87 | MiG-21 Bis | C-2132 | Wg Cdr Jagdish Singh Grewal |  | 45 Sqn | 10 km W of Naliya,Fire, control loss ejected. |
| 30 Aug 87 | Jaguar IS | Wg Cdr Ashok Yadav + | ASTE | TO Fm BLore Cr Coonoor. Unauthorised display over | ||
| 02 Sep 87 | Kiran HJT-16 | Sqn Ldr Dhiraj Kumar Purkayastha + Flt Lt Sameer Kalyan Kurane + | AFA | Cr Turkalkhanpur Sreddy Dist F/L Khurana k | ||
| 03 Sep 87 | MiG-21 Bis | Flt Lt Ranbir Singh | 3 Sqn | Cr during LL fight - Pilot thrown out safe | ||
| 08 Sep 87 | Kiran HJT-16 | Flt Cdt S Tyagi + | AFA | Cr Narsapur on second solo flt | ||
| 11 Sep 87 | Ajeet | E-1082 | Flt Lt Ramdurai Krishna Murthy + | 18 Sqn | ||
| 15 Sep 87 | Mirage 2000 | Sqn Ldr Gill | Cr Gwalior. The aircraft was destroyed but the pil | |||
| 22 Sep 87 | MiG-23 | | Gasgret Una dist HP Pt killed -- Not I In Memoria | |||
| 30 Oct 87 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj V Seetharaman + | ARMY - 662 | Capt GK Dhani also killed , Siachen Glacier | ||
| 01 Nov 87 | Kiran HJT-16 | Sqn Ldr Amar Jeet Singh Sandhu Flt Cdt V Saxena | AFA | Martin Baker List Flt Cdt V Saxena Eng Flame out | ||
| 03 Nov 87 | Unidentified HC | | Jaotala ranchi 5 Killed | |||
| 09 Nov 87 | Unidentified F | Flt Lt V K Reddy + | Cr at AFB Adampur. Not in In Memoriam | |||
| 12 Nov 87 | MiG-23 BN | Flt Lt Uttam Kumar Devnath | 10 Sqn | Ejected after throttle restriction. Samand 40 km f | ||
| 09 Dec 87 | BN2 Defender | IN-132 | Lt Cdr R Datta | NAVY | Ditched in Sea off cochin Crew Safe Eng failure | |
| 10 Dec 87 | Jaguar | Flt Lt Shankar Dayal Bajpai + | 6 Sqn | lost during dark night LL Nav Sortie Naliya | ||
| 25 Dec 87 | MiG-21 Bis | Sqn Ldr Ashok Sadhashiv Limaye |  | Aircraft hit snowbank, turned on back - w/o | ||
| 29 Dec 87 | Ajeet | E-1071 | | Kesavapalem Sulur AFS |
Pages 1 |
Note: All the data available here is publicly available in the Gazette of India, published by the Indian Government, or from public domain sources, press releases about Awards and Right-To-Information (RTI) Requests. Additionally data shared by veterans is added to the page with permission. No data with respect to serving officers below the rank of AVM is displayed. Information in Gazette of India and Award citations and photographs as released by the Indian Air Force are the only details displayed.