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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1973 : 1 1974 : 3 1975 : 2 1976 : 3 1977 : 1 1978 : 2 1979 : 1 1980 : 3 1981 : 3 1982 : 4 1983 : 6 1984 : 5 1985 : 1 1986 : 3 1987 : 3
1988 : 1 1989 : 1 1990 : 2 1992 : 4 1993 : 1 1994 : 4 1995 : 1 1996 : 1 1997 : 2 1998 : 1 1999 : 3 2000 : 1 2001 : 3 2003 : 1 2005 : 1
2006 : 1 2007 : 3 2009 : 1 2010 : 1 2011 : 1 2012 : 1 2014 : 1 2017 : 2 2018 : 1 2023 : 1

A total of 81 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
08 Aug 73 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Venkatachalam Dhanushkodi +
 AFA In Memoriam
20 Aug 74 Kiran HJT-16 Lt Cdr T H Chowfin
Sub Lt Y Chaudhari		 NAVY Martin Baker List Sub Lt Y Chaudhari
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
17 Dec 74 Kiran HJT-16 Lt S Singh
 NAVY Martin Baker List
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
25 Mar 76 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt A K Joshi
 Martin Baker List
28 Sep 76 Kiran HJT-16 U-777 Sqn Ldr Deepak Yadav +
Sqn Ldr Ramesh Chandra Ghildiyal +		 Click to View Record Click to View Record ASTE new manufactured aircraft and the HAL test pilots
25 Dec 76 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt R C Sharma
 5 BRD Air test, aircraft did not recover from spin
18 May 77 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Raj Kumar Poonia
Flt Lt Ramesh Bakshi		 Click to View Record Click to View Record Martin Baker List
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
07 Jun 79 Kiran HJT-16 Lt Cdr S P Singh
 NAVY Martin Baker List Lt M S Marnik
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
18 Oct 80 Kiran HJT-16 Sqn Ldr Kannady Vattakat Venugopal Menon +
Flt Lt Tadepalli Ram Kishore +		 Click to View Record ASTE Cr while Landing at B'lore. Practicing for display
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
09 Aug 82 Kiran HJT-16 IN-056 Lt M K Mishra +
 NAVY - INA Cr in sea after TO from Dabolim Sub Lt T S Tomar
23 Jan 83 Kiran HJT-16
Hakimpet AFA - Zambian trainee and IAF Instr eject
29 Jan 83 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt Amar Singh Ganpatrao Patil
 Click to View Record Martin Baker List Lt G S Maneklala
30 Mar 83 Kiran HJT-16 U-848 Flt Cdt Dharwarkar
 AFA Cr Mylavaram Krishna Dist on a solo NAV flight
07 Oct 83 Kiran HJT-16 U-810 Flt Lt Jatinder Singh Dhillon
 Click to View Record 5 BRD Ejection after engine failure and unsuccessful rel
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
13 Oct 83 Kiran HJT-16 Flt Lt P Sharma
Lt N Singh		 Martin Baker List
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
20 Oct 84 Kiran HJT-16 Lt N Singh
 Martin Baker List
29 Oct 84 Kiran HJT-16 Plt Offr Om Nirmal Kumar
 FTW Ejected - Jamnagar range during Armament Practice
01 Mar 85 Kiran HJT-16 Sqn Ldr Vangola Jai Prakash Reddy+
 406 AFS Bi Bidar Cr on TO
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
16 Dec 86 Kiran HJT-16 Lt S Singh
 Martin Baker List
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
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
13 Mar 92 Kiran HJT-16 Sqn Ldr Vivek Jain
Flt Cdt S Choudhary		 Click to View Record Martin Baker List . Name given as V Jain
23 Apr 92 Kiran HJT-16
FIS Tambaram AFS Cr thiroppur Pts BO
29 Apr 92 Kiran HJT-16 Wg Cdr S P Singh
Flt Lt Jayachandran Divakran Pillai		 Chegalpatt Dist Alandur
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.

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