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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1998 : 25

A total of 25 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
21 Jan 98 MiG-21 M Fg Offr Harbinder Singh
 Click to View Record Cr outside Sirsa Engine Failure
21 Mar 98 MiG-27 M Sqn Ldr Rajiv Kumar Mendiratta
 Click to View Record 10 Sqn Engine burst on T/O roll. Turbine blade flew off a
21 Mar 98 MiG-21 Bis
Cr near Chandigarh - MoD statement in LS
26 Mar 98 MiG-27 M
Cr near Jaisalmer/Suratgarh MoD statement in LS
12 May 98 MiG-21 M Air Cmde Arun Kumar Tiwary
 Click to View Record Pathankot 4k on gd
23 May 98 Kiran HJT-16 Mk 1A Sqn Ldr Ranadeep Chakarvarty +
 AFA Cr near Bidar MoD statement in LS
04 Jun 98 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr Samir Kashinath Nerkar +
 4 Sqn
24 Jun 98 MiG-21 Bis
27 Jul 98 MiG-21 UM Sqn Ldr Sanjay Chaudhary
 MiG21 crashed in the Assam
14 Aug 98 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1441
Fg Offr Nitin Anil Welde		 Click to View Record 114 HU engine failure at an altitude of 17800 ft. helico
14 Aug 98 MiG-21 Bis Fg Offr C G Trivedi
 Cr barmer dist. From Uttarlai
29 Aug 98Unidentified HC
Unidentified Cr in Madhya Pradesh
31 Aug 98 MiG-27 M TS-585 Flt Lt Parminder Singh Rana +
 22 Sqn Cr Kalaikonda onto TW/O other MiGs. Of the three a
31 Aug 98 MiG-27 M TS-571 - -
 22 Sqn Second MiG dest after another cr on top
31 Aug 98 MiG-27 M TS-530 - -
 22 Sqn Stationary on Ground Dest when another Ac cr
03 Sep 98 MiG-23 BN
220 Sqn Cr after TO from Halwara
07 Sep 98 Mil Mi-25
Sqn Ldr Dharminder Singh Nehra		 Cr near Gurdaspur Punjab
08 Sep 98 MiG-27 M Flt Lt Atul Bhal Deshpande
 29 Sqn Ejected over Pokhran Range
07 Oct 98 MiG-21 Bis Flt Lt Rakesh Kumar Kamboj +
 51 Sqn Cr Niligrant Sonamarg Dist.
19 Oct 98 Cheetah SA-315 Capt G D Singh +
 ARMY Maj Shankaran too k in Army crash at Simla
27 Oct 98 MiG-21 M Fg Offr Manu Srivastava +
 Click to View Record 108 Sqn Pathankot AFB Cr Kangra Dist
28 Oct 98 MiG-27 M
Kalaikonda Pt BO
14 Nov 98Unidentified T
Cr Mhow 2 Crew Killed
23 Nov 98 Sea Harrier
NAVY - INA Cr in Indian Ocean Pt bo
28 Nov 98 Deepak HPT-32 Flt Cdt Hemant Kumar Rai +
 BFTS Bamrauli AF

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