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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1941 : 6 1942 : 9 1943 : 66 1944 : 179 1945 : 136 1946 : 5

A total of 401 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
11 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC LB907 Fg Offr Latimour
 10 Sqn Swung on landing and tippedup. Landed in a 90 degr
14 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC LD121 W/O Eric BALL +
 4 Sqn Failed to return from sortie near Kaladan. Leader
15 Aug 44 Hurricane IIB HL995 Plt Offr W J Fernandez
 Click to View Record 151OTU FL 2 miles E of Risalpur after failing to switch t
15 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC KZ426
1 Sqn Overshot landing and hit truck
15 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC LD736 -
 9 Sqn Caught fire during refuelling. Plt Offr Brown and
18 Aug 44 Hurricane IIB BX134 Plt Offr Edminston
 Click to View Record 151OTU FL due to broken line in oil system. aircraft dama
19 Aug 44 Hurricane IIB BG674 Fg Offr A L Maitra
 151OTU BL - aircraft damaged could not move selector leve
19 Aug 44 Hurricane IIB HV434 Plt Offr Juvekar
 151OTU ran off runway in swing, collapse of left leg 2nd
21 Aug 44 Hurricane IIB HL793 Fg Offr A L Maitra
 151OTU similar accident, UC Jammed, Belly Landed
25 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC LD723 Fg Offr S Jamaluddin
 3 Sqn Belly landed, ac damaged Cat A
30 Aug 44 Hurricane IIC LB618 Plt Offr F Fernandez
 151OTU got lost, ran out of fuel, force landed (21 PC)
01 Sep 44 Hurricane IIB LF281 Plt Offr M A Kureshy +
 151OTU MAC (19pc)
01 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC KW913 Plt Offr K Joseph EAPEN +
 151OTU MAC Body not recovered. Hit LF281
06 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC LD855 A/Plt Offr D B Ghorpade
 Click to View Record 151OTU uc collapse after landing and taxy (20pc)
07 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC BN681 Plt Offr A L Maitra
 151OTU swung on ldg, dam ac
08 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC JS464 Fg Offr K M Kirkpatrick
 151OTU port oleo dam on landing aircraft swung off runway
16 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC LE958 Plt Offr HCF Mayadas
 151OTU taxied off runway, dam prop, carelessness (23pc)
18 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC LE300 Plt Offr G D Sen Gupta +
 151OTU Cr 8 m NE of Kohat, Stalled off turn. Wrong name f
23 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC LD112 Fg Offr B A Hall
 Click to View Record 3 Sqn Crashed near Mileston65 on Bannu Kohat area. Ac wa
28 Sep 44 Hurricane IIC KZ447 Fg Offr Anand Ramdas Pandit
 Click to View Record 1 Sqn Engine lost power, belly landed at Tamu
29 Sep 44 Hurricane II LB888 Fg Offr Rajendra Singh
 Click to View Record 1 Sqn Crashed between Silchar and Imphal. Spum into grou
06 Oct 44 Hurricane IIC Z5668 Plt Offr M U Haq
 1SFTS Aircraft met with an accident on landing owing to
07 Oct 44 Hurricane IIB LE852 Plt Offr P K Senapati
 151OTU dam to prop after ran into ditch (24PC)
11 Oct 44 Hurricane IIC PJ685 Plt Offr N K Mukerjee
 151OTU belly landing, after tyre burst on first landing a
03 Nov 44 Hurricane IIc LD240 Fg Offr A M Kapur
 Click to View Record 1 Sqn Cr inJungle due to Glycol Leak, pt trekked back
04 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC Fg Offr T K Lalith
 Click to View Record 1SFTS Crashed after landing at NW end of runway owing to
04 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC LE211 Plt Offr C A Hall
 Click to View Record 151OTU BL Risalpur on TO (24pc)
04 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC Fg Offr Smith RAF
 10 Sqn Aircraft F - Swung off runway on landing and went
07 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC LF204 Plt Offr P C Pavri +
 151OTU Cr at Nowshera swampy ground. Killed
08 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC KZ486
3 Sqn Overshot on landing and crashed into iron railing
08 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC LB678
10 Sqn Overshot landing at Singarbill, DBR
09 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC LD853 Flt Lt J M Engineer
 Click to View Record 151OTU Minimum skin damage to starboard main plane after
09 Nov 44 Hurricane HW414
10 Sqn Swung on take off and hit ditch
10 Nov 44 Hurricane LE766 Fg Offr Sen Gupta
 Click to View Record 2 Sqn Spun in while landing at Cox. Aircraft was write o
15 Nov 44 Hurricane IIc LD409 Fg Offr B B Chakraborty +
 10 Sqn Failed to recover from dive and flicked on to back
20 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC JS417 A/Plt Offr I Jan
 1SFTS Damaged on landing due to Oleo Leg collapse. Cat A
22 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC PJ753 Fg Offr A J Mir
 Click to View Record 1SFTS 1510 Hrs . Stalled his aircraft on landing. Fate u
22 Nov 44 Hurricane IIB LE852 Plt Offr T K Ghosh +
 Click to View Record 151OTU Cr in River Kabul 2 miles N of Nowshera killing pi
22 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC HV429 A/Plt Offr N B Menon
 Click to View Record 1SFTS 1120 Hrs Damaged cat A due to premature retraction
27 Nov 44 Hurricane IIc LE804 Flt Lt D F Eduljee +
 Click to View Record 1 Sqn SD by Ground fire during Strafing run at Burma
28 Nov 44 Hurricane IIC LE807 Plt Offr B K Stidston
 Click to View Record 3 Sqn collapsed u/c when he pulled out suddenly in a hig
02 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC LD694 Fg Offr A S M Bhavnani
 Click to View Record 3 Sqn lost way from Delhi to Kohat and forcelanded at La
03 Dec 44 Hurricane Fg Offr K V Nair
 Click to View Record 2 Sqn Forcelanded in Chaung 15m NE of Akyab. First casua
05 Dec 44 Hurricane LD383 Fg Offr Ram Saran Sharma +
 Click to View Record 2 Sqn Failed to return from a sortie in Kaladan valley.
06 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC LE171 Plt Offr F V Scudder
 Click to View Record 151OTU FL Sambrial 16 m E of Wazirabad. Ran out of fuel a
08 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC KZ939 Plt Offr A C Edwards RAF
 10 Sqn Undercarraige leg collpased on landing at Baigachi
09 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC Fg Offr K N Bulsara +
 Click to View Record 9 Sqn Left the target in Buthidaung area with engine tro
09 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC JS416 Plt Offr Suhas Biswas
 Click to View Record 151OTU fl 3 miles SW of Risalpur - eng failure due to fla
12 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC LE993 Plt Offr C Ray
 Click to View Record 151OTU swugn on TO , went into ditch (23PC)
14 Dec 44 Hurricane IIC LF217
6 Sqn Ran out of fuel while lost and crashed, Jandola

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