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IAF, IA and IN Aircraft Losses Database
| 2002 : 32 |
A total of 32 Accidents and Losses are listed.
| Date | Aircraft Type | Tail No | Pilot/Crew | Photo | Unit | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jan 02 | MiG-25R | Sqn Ldr Balraj Singh Bhullar |  | 102 Sqn | Ac hit Mech Rwy Swpr landing at Adampur Pt Ejected | |
| 24 Jan 02 | Cheetah SA-315 | Maj A P S Mohal + | ARMY | Capt Pramod Lal Killed. Leh Area | ||
| 19 Feb 02 | Mil Mi-35 | Flt Lt Deshpande | Cr Kangradist HP. Crew OK. Sgt Tripathi | |||
| 21 Feb 02 | MiG-23 BN | | Pathankot Rs 4.6 Cr Loss | |||
| 25 Feb 02 | Deepak HPT-32 | Flt Lt Vineet Bhardwaj + Sqn Ldr D K Suresh + |  | AFA | Cr Dacharam Village Dundigal | |
| 15 Mar 02 | MiG-23 MF | Rakesh Sharma | Cr at Uttarlai - Bayatu and Sindhari villages | |||
| 04 Apr 02 | MiG-21 Bis | Sqn Ldr Prashant Kumar Bundela + |  | 32 Sqn | Cr Jhelu-Gagari vill Jodhpur Dist died 17 Aug 02 | |
| 11 Apr 02 | MiG-29 | KB-3126 | Fg Offr Prasanta Kumar Mishra + |  | 223 Sqn | Cr Sirsi, Karnataka |
| 12 Apr 02 | Chetak | | HE(A) RSQ | |||
| 20 Apr 02 | MiG-21 UM | Sqn Ldr Tarique Jamil Ahmad Khan + Fg Offr Deepak Dahiya + |  | MOFTU | Sqn Ldr Khan and Fg Offr Dahiya were on a fighter | |
| 26 Apr 02 | MiG-21 M | Fg Offr Paul | Cr near Sirsa, Pt BO | |||
| 03 May 02 | MiG-21 Bis | C-2797 | Flt Lt S K Nayak | 23 Sqn | Ejected over Jallandhar City - Eight on Ground k | |
| 09 May 02 | Jaguar IS | JS-139 | Fg Offr Sandeep Palarwal + | 14 Sqn | Aborted TO Ambala. Hit fence ac exploded | |
| 07 Jun 02 | MiG-27 M | Fg Offr Thakur | Caught fire on TO Srinagar, Pt Ejected | |||
| 09 Jun 02 | Arudhra Glider GL | Gp Capt Gurcharan Singh Baweja + Flt Cdt R Sathya + |  | 1 TN Air S | In Memoriam | |
| 26 Jun 02 | MiG-23 BN | Flt Lt Bharat Kumar | TO from Halwara Pilot Baled out. | |||
| 27 Jun 02 | MiG-21 Bis | | Barrackpore Rs 1.5 Cr Loss | |||
| 15 Jul 02 | MiG-21 UM | U-1729 | Sqn Ldr Rethivedi Duraiswami Hemraj | 8 Sqn | TO from Baghdogra. Both Pilots ejected after TD | |
| 16 Aug 02 | Cheetah SA-315 | Sqn Ldr Sanjay Bharadwaj + Flt Lt Maheesh Trikha + |  | 114 HU | Cr Siachen - Flt Lt A M Trikha killed | |
| 05 Sep 02 | Unidentified HC | | Write-off due to Human error (Servicing). Sources: | |||
| 09 Sep 02 | MiG-21 Bison | Sqn Ldr Rajat Nangia | 3 Sqn | Cr. Naggal area near Ambala Pilot BO | ||
| 09 Sep 02 | MiG-21 Bis | C-276? | Flt Lt Rajat Tyagi | Rajasthan. Pilot Baled out | ||
| 01 Oct 02 | Illyushin 38 | IN-302 | Lt Cdr R Saini + | NAVY - INA | MAC over Dabolim 5 Cr Killed | |
| 01 Oct 02 | Illyushin 38 | IN-304 | Lt Cdr S K Rathore + | NAVY - INA | MAC over Dabolim 7 Cr Killed. | |
| 11 Oct 02 | MiG-21 UM | | MOFTU | Cr Rangapura Sonitpur dist, assam Plts BO, Tezpur | ||
| 11 Oct 02 | Deepak HPT-32 | X-3233 | Sub Lt Vivek Koman | BFTS | Eng failure CrL in field near Bamrauli - Navy Plt | |
| 21 Oct 02 | MiG-21 Bis | C-2800 | Flt Lt Pratap Singh | Ejected on approach to Uttarlai - Night flying | ||
| 05 Nov 02 | Jaguar IS | | 14 Sqn | Eng Failure near Ambala 5k on ground. Pt Ejected | ||
| 14 Nov 02 | MiG-21 UM | Wg Cdr Naresh Dogra + Fg Offr Abhimanyu Singh Chauhan + |  | 8 Sqn | TO from Baghdogra | |
| 21 Nov 02 | Deepak HPT-32 | X-3254 | Flt Lt K S Reddy Flt Cdt Srivastava | AFA | Flt Cdt Srivastava BO Valvali vill nr Dundigal | |
| 19 Dec 02 | MiG-27 M | | Cr near Kalaikunda airfield at Midnapore Dist | |||
| 26 Dec 02 | MiG-21 Bis | Fg Offr B K Singh | Cr near Badgam at Srinagar Airfield Pt Ejected |
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