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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1964 : 1 1965 : 1 1968 : 1 1971 : 2 1973 : 1 1978 : 1 1985 : 1 1990 : 1 1992 : 2 1993 : 1 1994 : 1 1997 : 1 1998 : 1 2000 : 2 2002 : 1
2007 : 1 2010 : 1

A total of 20 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
01 Jun 64 Chetak Plt Offr Sujit Kumar Palit
 114 HU Near Khardungla Pass DNE
23 Jul 65 Chetak BZ-796
114 HU Trg Sortie
30 Jun 68 Chetak
114 HU DNE. Cat E
05 Dec 71 Chetak
Fg Offr Satyavolu Sri Ramarao		 114 HU SD by F-86, 5 KM SW of Srinagar
11 Dec 71 Chetak Z-366 Flt Lt Kharlti Lal Bajaj +
 114 HU Hit Power Lines at Pt 7573 in Kashmir
07 Feb 73 Chetak Flt Lt Mahadev Prabhakar Lagu +
Fg Offr Chandragupta Jinendra Narade +		 114 HU In Memoriam - 3rd Pssnger A N S Ranawat 12221
03 Nov 78 Chetak Sqn Ldr Anil Kumar Dogra +
Sqn Ldr Manohar Lal Monga +		 114 HU Crashed 15 Miles SW of Leh
30 Jun 85 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1906
114 HU DNE. Bhim Helipad at 17650 ft. Hit snow short of p
26 Nov 90 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1442 Fg Offr Madan J Ghatge +
Fg Offr Vivek Naresh +		 114 HU Leh-Margo-Leh sortie. Crashed with ITBP pers near
24 Feb 92 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1941 Flt Lt Harinder Singh Reen
 114 HU Caught in downdraught at Amar Helipad. Hit edge an
30 Jun 92 Cheetah SA-315 Z-3151 Wg Cdr Dilip Dinkar Mandpe
Air Cmde Rajinder Pal Singh Dhillon		 Click to View Record 114 HU DNE.
20 Jul 93 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1876 Fg Offr Mahendra N Dalvi
Fg Offr Neelkanth R Hiremath		 114 HU Cr due downdraught during finals at Amar Helipad
27 Jul 94 Cheetah SA-315 Z-1912
114 HU cr Khardungla. Power Settling, over loading. Write
02 Jul 97 Cheetah SA-315 Flt Lt Rajeev Juyal +
Flt Lt Vipin Kumar Agarwal +		 Click to View Record Click to View Record 114 HU Spacial Disorientation Siachen Glacier
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
02 Jul 00 Cheetah SA-315 Flt Lt Sameer Riaz Kagdi +
Flt Lt Siddharth Puranik +		 Click to View Record 114 HU Cr Ladakh, 2 K incl 1 ITBP offr,
03 Oct 00 Cheetah SA-315 Flt Lt V Krishnamurthy +
 114 HU Crashed Siachen Glacier
16 Aug 02 Cheetah SA-315 Sqn Ldr Sanjay Bharadwaj +
Flt Lt Maheesh Trikha +		 Click to View Record 114 HU Cr Siachen - Flt Lt A M Trikha killed
11 Apr 07 Cheetah SA-315 Sqn Ldr Shantanu Basu +
Flt Lt Amit Sharma +		 Click to View Record Click to View Record 114 HU overshoot landing pad and cr into ravine. The heli
08 Nov 10 Cheetah SA-315 Flt Lt Parikshit Hastekar
 114 HU Cr Saltaro Ridge, Siachen Glacier. Flt Lt Hastekar

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