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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database
| 1976 : 31 |
A total of 31 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Jan 76 | HT-2 | Flt Lt Yashwant Rao Rane Flt Cdt Salaria |  | EFS | DNE. Could not recover from a spin in an HT-2. Tol | |
| 03 Jan 76 | Cheetah SA-315 | Capt Harinder Pal Singh Jaggi + Capt Jagan Nath Chandna | ARMY - 18 | In Memoriam | ||
| 09 Jan 76 | MiG-21 | Fg Offr Munesh Kumar Gupta + | 3 Sqn | In Memoriam | ||
| 09 Jan 76 | Mil Mi-8 | Z-1681 | | Cr near Oil Rig Haakon Magnus 5K off Bombay. 5 Pas | ||
| 27 Jan 76 | Gnat | Flt Lt Subramaniamudaliar Muthukumaraswamy + |  | 22 Sqn | Aileron reverted to Manual, cr on TO Hasimara | |
| 03 Feb 76 | MiG-21 FL | Sqn Ldr Gulshan Kapur | 108 Sqn | MAC between Sqn Ldr G Kapur and K L Umesh - Sqn L | ||
| 03 Feb 76 | MiG-21 FL | Fg Offr Konda Lakshman Umesh + | 108 Sqn | MAC between Sqn Ldr G Kapur and K L Umesh - Sqn L | ||
| 19 Feb 76 | Gnat | Plt Offr Shrish Sridhar Buit + | 22 Sqn | In Memoriam | ||
| 04 Mar 76 | Sea Hawk | IN-241 | Cdr P A Debrass | NAVY - INA | Rolled off deck of INS Vikrant. Pt Ejected U/W | |
| 25 Mar 76 | Kiran HJT-16 | Flt Lt A K Joshi | Martin Baker List | |||
| 07 Apr 76 | Hunter T66 | Wg Cdr Tejendra Singh Rathore S K Sinha | OCU | Khalid and S K Sinha ejected | ||
| 10 Apr 76 | Alize | IN-205 | | NAVY - INA | Ditched in sea, Crew rescued by Lt Cdr KDS Sandhu | |
| 21 Apr 76 | Vampire T55 | Lt V Ahuja Sub Lt J Singh | NAVY | Martin Baker List | ||
| 30 Apr 76 | Packet C-119 | Sqn Ldr Narendra Nath Kaul + Sqn Ldr Samuel Jaiwant Clive + | 19 Sqn | Nav F/L GS Chowdhary (9497) also killed | ||
| 08 Jun 76 | MiG-21 FL | Flt Lt Turab Ali + | 47 Sqn | In Memoriam | ||
| 10 Jun 76 | Iskra TS-11 | W-1762 | Sqn Ldr Joseph Thomas |  | FTW | flight test after FTW reported a number of delayed |
| 23 Jul 76 | HF-24 Marut | Fg Offr Uday Shankar Gelli | 10 Sqn | Engine caught fire. Pilot Ejected | ||
| 24 Jul 76 | Sukhoi-7 | Sqn Ldr Owen Joseph D'Sena + |  | TACDE | Ac tech failure. Crashed immediately after take of | |
| 15 Aug 76 | HF-24 Marut | | Martin Baker List | |||
| 06 Sep 76 | Sukhoi-7 | Fg Offr Kanwal Naz + |  | 26 Sqn | Crashed during an A&E check sortie | |
| 27 Sep 76 | HT-2 | Flt Lt Anil Chaturvedi + Flt Cdt Natrajan + | EFS | Instructor started spin at lower altitude - did no | ||
| 28 Sep 76 | Kiran HJT-16 | U-777 | Sqn Ldr Deepak Yadav + Sqn Ldr Ramesh Chandra Ghildiyal + |   | ASTE | new manufactured aircraft and the HAL test pilots |
| 01 Oct 76 | Alize | IN-208 | Lt Cdr P Kumar + Lt P C Handa + | NAVY - INA | Cr iin Sea off Goa - Lt J S Suhar k | |
| 06 Oct 76 | HF-24 Marut | D-1247 | Flt Lt Samavedam Vera Raja Sekhar |  | 10 Sqn | Ferry for AF day display. Ejected after inflight e |
| 11 Oct 76 | MiG-21 FL | Flt Lt Deshpal Singh + |  | 8 Sqn | Aerobatics | |
| 11 Nov 76 | Sukhoi-7 | Flt Lt Stayendra Vikram Singh Gahlot |  | Ejected over Ambala. Engine Flameout Date Not Exat | ||
| 12 Nov 76 | Dakota C-47 | BJ-922 | | |||
| 15 Nov 76 | Chetak | Flt Lt Chandan Gupta + Flt Lt Murthy | ASTE | killed in crash - test pilot school. Date given as | ||
| 26 Nov 76 | Packet C-119 | | PTS | Cr near Tumkur. Crew survived ac w/o | ||
| 17 Dec 76 | Canberra T 54 | Fg Offr Ashok Kumar Tekchand Gehani + Flt Lt Hemant Manohar Pandit + | JBCU | |||
| 25 Dec 76 | Kiran HJT-16 | Flt Lt R C Sharma | 5 BRD | Air test, aircraft did not recover from spin |
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