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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database


1968 : 1 1971 : 1 1976 : 2 1980 : 1 1981 : 1 1982 : 1 1987 : 1 1989 : 1 1994 : 1 1999 : 1 2005 : 2 2009 : 1 2016 : 1 2023 : 1

A total of 16 Accidents and Losses are listed.

DateAircraft TypeTail NoPilot/CrewPhotoUnitRemarks
08 Apr 68 HF-24 Marut Flt Lt Inderjit Singh Sandhu
 Click to View Record ASTE Ejected over Kanpur
21 Nov 71 HF-24 Marut D-1206 Sqn Ldr Arun Keshav Sapre +
 Click to View Record ASTE Cr during Gun trials at Kutch
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
15 Nov 76 Chetak Flt Lt Chandan Gupta +
Flt Lt Murthy		 ASTE killed in crash - test pilot school. Date given as
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
03 May 81 Devon HW-515 Flt Lt Rakesh Sharma
Flt Lt Pradeep Kumar Mulay		 Click to View Record Click to View Record ASTE Brake fail in turn. Went into barrier stanchion.
30 Dec 82 Ajeet Trainer E-2426 Sqn Ldr Davinder Kumar Powar +
 ASTE Cr Dharmapur AC Took off Sulur. He was flying the
30 Aug 87 Jaguar IS Wg Cdr Ashok Yadav +
 ASTE TO Fm BLore Cr Coonoor. Unauthorised display over
06 Jun 89 Jaguar IS Sqn Ldr Sanjay Raghunath Karve +
 ASTE HAL Blore 1 on Ground Killed
17 Mar 94 Kiran HJT-16 U-766 Sqn Ldr Raghunath Nambiar
Sqn Ldr Arvind Sharma		 Click to View Record Click to View Record ASTE Cr 11 km from Hosur TN
11 Jan 99 HS-748 H-2175 Sqn Ldr Pasupathy Venkataraman +
Sqn Ldr Nipani Venkat Seshu +		 Click to View Record ASTE AWACS Version, Cr in Arkonam Forests
26 Oct 05 MiG-21 UM Sqn Ldr K Ramachandramurthy +
 ASTE Bird Hi Eng flame out Plt K in Ej Attempt 1 Surv
27 Dec 05 Kiran HJT-16 U-720 Wg Cdr Rahul Arun Bapat
Sqn Ldr Deepak		 ASTE BO Cr Rajarajeswari Ngr nr Mysore
06 Mar 09 NAL Saras VT-XRM Wg Cdr Kotekoppa Praveen +
Wg Cdr Dipesh Kumar Shah +		 ASTE Cr Bidadi Vill near Blr-Mys road. Sqn Ldr Ilayaraj
03 Oct 16 Jaguar IB JT-055
ASTE HE(A). Pilots ejected, Crashed Pokhran range 1345
02 Jun 23 Kiran HJT-16 U-692
ASTE

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