IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1967 : 2 1968 : 1 1970 : 3 1971 : 7 1974 : 3 1975 : 2 1976 : 3 1978 : 1 1979 : 1 1980 : 2 1982 : 3

A total of 28 Accidents and Losses are listed.


DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
01 May 67 HF-24 Marut BD-831 Fg Offr Sukhwant Singh +
10 Sqn A/c crashed with pilot in cockpit. CoI could not e
16 Jul 67 HF-24 Marut BD-841 Wg Cdr Vishwanatha Krishnamurthy
Click to View Record 10 Sqn Both engine failed, Ejected
08 Apr 68 HF-24 Marut Flt Lt Inderjit Singh Sandhu
Click to View Record ASTE Ejected over Kanpur
10 Jan 70 HF-24 Marut BD-886 Gp Capt Suranjan Das +
Click to View Record HAL HF032. Cr after TO from Bangalore. the Board of In
12 May 70 HF-24 Marut BR-462 Sqn Ldr Kuppuswamy Lakshmi Narayanan +
Click to View Record HAL HF001. Cr on Ferry flt from Blore to Goa
12 Sep 70 HF-24 Marut BD-853 Wg Cdr Onkar Nath Kacker +
Click to View Record 10 Sqn Cr at Uttarlai, Tyre burst on TO.
04 Mar 71 HF-24 Marut BD-863 Flt Lt Sushil Agnihotri
Click to View Record 10 Sqn Cr at SK Range; Pilot got lost and Ejected
27 Jul 71 HF-24 Marut BD-850 Wg Cdr Jagat Kishore Mohlah +
Click to View Record HAL aircraft belonging to the IAF which was sent to HA
21 Nov 71 HF-24 Marut D-1206 Sqn Ldr Arun Keshav Sapre +
Click to View Record ASTE Cr during Gun trials at Kutch
04 Dec 71 HF-24 Marut D-1193 Flt Lt Pradip Vinayak Apte +
Click to View Record 220 Sqn AAA Dharnaro RS Nayachor
05 Dec 71 HF-24 Marut Flt Lt Jawahar Lal Bhargava
Click to View Record 220 Sqn AAA Nayachor
09 Dec 71 HF-24 Marut BD-858
10 Sqn SD AAA Kotri near Hyderabad. A/c from 220 sqn
11 Dec 71 HF-24 Marut D-1204 Sqn Ldr Madhukar Shantaram Jatar
Click to View Record 220 Sqn Dest on ground by F-104 at Uttarlai
01 Jan 74 HF-24 Marut Flt Lt Kamal Raj Singh
Click to View Record 220 Sqn DNE. Practice interdiction sortie in the local fly
24 Sep 74 HF-24 Marut D-1239 Sqn Ldr Rama Pati Sharma +
220 Sqn Jodhpur. Engine fire - tried to land instead of ej
28 Oct 74 HF-24 Marut Fg Offr Udoy Narayan Ganguly
Click to View Record Martin Baker List - Went into a flat spin
10 Jul 75 HF-24 Marut Flt Lt Leyland Andrew Fernandez
Click to View Record Martin Baker List
11 Nov 75 HF-24 Marut D-1258 Flt Lt Philop Edmund D'Souza +
Click to View Record 220 Sqn Aerobatics, went into spin. Ejected but did not su
23 Jul 76 HF-24 Marut Fg Offr Uday Shankar Gelli
10 Sqn Engine caught fire. Pilot Ejected
15 Aug 76 HF-24 Marut
Martin Baker List
06 Oct 76 HF-24 Marut D-1247 Flt Lt Samavedam Vera Raja Sekhar
Click to View Record 10 Sqn Ferry for AF day display. Ejected after inflight e
08 Jul 78 HF-24 Marut D-1276 Sqn Ldr Joginder Singh Kapoor +
Click to View Record 31 Sqn
22 Sep 79 HF-24 Marut IT D-1692 Sqn Ldr Sudhir Chander Batra
220 Sqn Ejected near Ozhar while ferrying a trainer from B
06 Sep 80 HF-24 Marut D-1243 Fg Offr Rippon Kumar Khullar +
220 Sqn 30 km from Jodhpur
29 Oct 80 HF-24 Marut D-1259 Flt Lt Cnakkangil Kesavadas +
Click to View Record 220 Sqn Pokhran
10 Feb 82 HF-24 Marut Fg Offr Subhash Mohan
Click to View Record Martin Baker List
05 May 82 HF-24 Marut Sqn Ldr Swarup Narain Garg
Jodhpur Basani Indl Area Pt BO Martin Baker List
12 Jun 82 HF-24 Marut D-1211 Flt Lt Anil Kumar Mathur
Click to View Record Martin Baker List Lost eng on TO Crashed into coll

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