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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1971 : 1 1972 : 1 1973 : 2 1974 : 2 1975 : 2 1978 : 2 1980 : 2 1981 : 3 1982 : 3 1983 : 2 1984 : 3 1986 : 3 1987 : 3 1988 : 1 1989 : 2
1990 : 2 1991 : 1 1992 : 2 1993 : 1 1994 : 3 1995 : 3 1996 : 1 1997 : 1 1998 : 1 1999 : 2 2000 : 1 2001 : 1 2002 : 2 2004 : 1 2005 : 1
2007 : 1 2008 : 1 2009 : 1 2018 : 1 2023 : 1

A total of 60 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
20 Feb 71 Harvard T-6 Flt Lt Chuhar Singh Kanwar +
Flt Cdt Atul Dattatray Mandke+		 Click to View Record AFA
13 Sep 72 Harvard T-6 Flt Lt Ram Dayal Bishnoi +
Flt Lt Arjun Dev Arora +		 AFA In Memoriam
08 Aug 73 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Venkatachalam Dhanushkodi +
 AFA In Memoriam
03 Nov 73 Harvard T-6 IT-313 Flt Cdt Mrinal Kanti Devnath
 AFA Cr L petalam village Medak
01 Jul 74 Harvard T-6 Flt Cdt Khurade
 AFA DNE. Unauthorised LL flying over lake. A/c nudged
05 Sep 74 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Nitin Madhukar Gupte
Flt Cdt Arup Raha		 Click to View Record Click to View Record AFA Engine flamed out on downwind and both ejected saf
10 Oct 75 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Gopa Kumar Nair +
 AFA Date given as 9/10 in In Memoriam
01 Nov 75 Kiran HJT-16 Lt G V Sarathi +
Flt Lt Anil Kumar Oberoi +		 AFA The reason established was Carbon Monoxide poisoni
21 Mar 78 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Naresh Kumar Ahuja +
 AFA In Memoriam
07 Apr 78 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Anjan Kumar Sen +
 AFA In Memoriam
06 Mar 80 Kiran HJT-16 Sqn Ldr Ashok Kumar Dasgupta
Flt Cdt A K Singh		 AFA Martin Baker List
19 Mar 80 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt A Mohan +
 AFA MEDAK Papanapet
04 Mar 81 Kiran HJT-16 Lt Cdr Siva Kumar Natarajan +
 AFA In Memoriam
15 Mar 81 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt G M Dua
 AFA Martin Baker List
01 Oct 81 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt A Singh
 AFA Martin Baker List Cdt A Singh
24 Feb 82 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt A Gupta +
 AFA In Memoriam
28 Jul 82 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Chuducattil Koshy Varkey John +
 AFA In Memoriam
04 Aug 82 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Anil Golani
 Click to View Record AFA Martin Baker List
30 Mar 83 Kiran HJT-16 U-848 Flt Cdt Dharwarkar
 AFA Cr Mylavaram Krishna Dist on a solo NAV flight
09 Oct 83 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Abhay Kumar +
Flt Cdt K M Nair +		 AFA Mambapur vill MEDAK Flt Cdt K.M.Nair* Check Date i
21 Feb 84 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Raju Stephen
Flt Cdt Shankar Krishnamurthy		 Click to View Record AFA The main finding was that the aircraft had failed
21 Mar 84 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Vinod Sivaraman
 AFA Martin Baker List From Dundigal
12 Oct 84 Kiran HJT-16 Avn Cdt A Tiwari +
 AFA INavy
27 Mar 86 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt V S Mehta +
 AFA Cr after TO fm Dundigal
22 Aug 86 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Vijaykumar Santoshkumar Sikdar +
Flt Cdt K Srinivasa Rao		 AFA Flt Cdt K Srinivasa Rao Ejected Cr Bijleepore Vill
24 Oct 86 Deepak HPT-32 Flt Lt Pradeep Rastogi +
Flt Cdt Raja Prasad Pandey +		 AFA Post an EFATO (actual not Simulated) they set up f
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
08 Sep 87 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt S Tyagi +
 AFA Cr Narsapur on second solo flt
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
27 Sep 88 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt V S N Murthy
 AFA Narsapore Pt BO Martin Baker List
10 May 89Unidentified T
AFA Cr Masaipet Village Medak Dist
16 Nov 89 Kiran HJT-16 Sub Lt Rajendra Vinayak Rao Kunte +
 AFA Medak dist
06 Nov 90 Kiran HJT-16 Sub Lt S Surinder +
 AFA Dundigal AFA Jinnaram Forests
01 Dec 90 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt Gurpreet Singh
 AFA Cr 5 km fm Narsapur
28 Mar 91 Deepak HPT-32 Sqn Ldr Nihal Singh +
Flt Cdt J S Rana +		 AFA In Memoriam
05 Jan 92 Deepak HPT-32 Flt Cdt M Sabharwal
 AFA BO after engine oil leak near Dundigal AFA. First
11 Sep 92 Kiran HJT-16
AFA Bidar AFS Cr Nizamabad Dist
02 May 93 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt U B Umrani +
 AFA Bidar Cr at narayankhed killed.
25 Feb 94 Kiran HJT-16 U-752
AFA Nosegear Collapse during Ldg at AFA acW/O
19 Apr 94 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt P R Shendge +
 AFA Bird hit after pull out over Banswada range Bidar.
29 Oct 94 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt A Dixit
 AFA Martin Baker List
07 May 95 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt A Nandy +
Sqn Ldr Vinod G Koshy +		 Click to View Record AFA Cr after TO from Kalaikunda 1k 1Ej
17 Aug 95 Deepak HPT-32 Flt Cdt R S Prabhu +
 AFA Cr after disorientation killing pilot
22 Sep 95 Deepak HPT-32 Sub Lt Diku Gogoi +
 AFA In Memoriam
04 Nov 96 Kiran HJT-16 U-857
AFA Guided to eject after she got lost returning from
28 Sep 97 Deepak HPT-32 X-3149 Flt Lt Deepak Arun Kulkarni
 AFA Force landed with a pupil in AFA
23 May 98 Kiran HJT-16 Mk 1A Sqn Ldr Ranadeep Chakarvarty +
 AFA Cr near Bidar MoD statement in LS
10 May 99 Deepak HPT-32 Flt Cdt V B Deshmukh +
 AFA Cr Reddykhanpur vill, Medak Dist. From Dundigal
01 Oct 99 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Cdt S Agnihotri
 AFA Bidar AFS Cr Ekalara Tanda Village
23 May 00 Kiran HJT-16 U-837 Sqn Ldr Mukesh Nema
Sqn Ldr Harsh Vardhan Thakur		 Click to View Record Click to View Record AFA Cr Nittor Vill, TO Bidar AFS Both Pts BO. Sqn Ldr

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